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Notes on Working with Strings
In the current release it has not been possible to fully complete the implementation of strings. Especially the handling of blank characters at the end of a string has not been finalized for a number of ABAP statements.
For the operand positions in italics of the following ABAP statements, blank characters at the end of strings are not taken into account. This may change in the next release. Therefore strings with blank characters at the end should not be used in these positions.

ASSIGN f TO fs TYPE type
ASSIGN TABLE FIELD ( f )
ASSIGN ( f ) TO fs
ASSIGN LOCAL COPY OF MAIN TABLE FIELD ( f ) TO fs
ASSIGN COMPONENT name OF STRUCTURE struc TO
fs
ASSIGN LOCAL COPY OF ( f ) TO fs

CALL SELECTION-SCREEN scr USING SELECTION-SET set
CLOSE DATASET dsn
CREATE OBJECT ref TYPE ( class
)
CREATE DATA dref TYPE ( type )

DELETE FROM dbtab WHERE ...
(valid for all strings in the WHERE clause )

EDITOR-CALL FOR REPORT prog
EDITOR-CALL FOR itab TITLE text

GENERATE DYNPRO ... ID id
GENERATE REPORT prog
GENERATE SUBROUTINE POOL itab NAME name

IMPORT DYNPRO ... ID id

MESSAGE xnnn WITH f1 ... f4
MESSAGE ID id TYPE mtype NUMBER n


NEW-PAGE PRINT ON ... (valid for all additions
)

OPEN DATASET dsn ...
... TYPE c
... MESSAGE m
... FILTER f

PERFORM ( form )
... IN PROGRAM ( prog )

SET PF-STATUS pfstat
... EXCLUDING f
... OF PROGRAM prog
SET TITLEBAR title
... OF PROGRAM prog
SET USER-COMMAND cmd
SUBMIT rep ... TO SAP-SPOOL ... (gilt f�r alle Zus�tze
)
SUBMIT rep ... WITH FREE SELECTIONS texpr

TRANSFER f TO dsn

UPDATE dbtab WHERE ...
(valid for all strings in the WHERE clause )

WRITE ...
... CURRENCY w
... UNIT u

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