SAP STRING TEMPLATES LITERALS documentation, setup help and example usage

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String Templates - literal_text

Syntax
c...c

Effect
Within a string template |...| , a literal text c...c represents its exact character string. Literal text consists of all characters in c that

are not included in curly brackets { }

are not control characters

not the special characters | , { , } , or \ .

Blanks in string templates in particular are always significant. To display a special character | , { , } , or \
as a literal character, you can prefix it with the escape symbol \
.

Example
The following string template displays the text "Characters |, {, and } have to be escaped by \ in literal text." .
DATA txt TYPE string.

txt = |Characters \|, \{, and \} have to be escaped by \\ in literal text.|.

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