SAP STRING STREAMS documentation, setup help and example usage

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Streaming for Strings
The specific classes for streaming for strings are:

CL_ABAP_STRING_C_READER

CL_ABAP_STRING_C_WRITER

CL_ABAP_STRING_X_READER

CL_ABAP_STRING_X_WRITER

These classes are subclasses of the abstract superclasses CL_ABAP_MEMORY_... .

Example
A writer stream is used to fill a string and then pass it to a reader stream. The reader stream skips three characters and then reads the remaining characters.
DATA: string_writer TYPE REF TO cl_abap_string_c_writer,
string_reader TYPE REF TO if_abap_c_reader.

DATA snippet TYPE c LENGTH 1.

CREATE OBJECT string_writer TYPE cl_abap_string_c_writer.

DO 10 TIMES.
string_writer->write( |{ sy-index - 1 }| ).
ENDDO.
string_writer->close( ).

CREATE OBJECT string_reader TYPE cl_abap_string_c_reader
EXPORTING
str = string_writer->get_result_string( ).

string_reader->skip( 3 ).
WHILE string_reader->data_available( ) = 'X'.
snippet = string_reader->read( 1 ).
cl_demo_output=>write( snippet ).
ENDWHILE.
string_reader->close( ).

cl_demo_output=>display( ).