Inline Declaration in ABAP

Agenda ● Inline Declaration

 Inline Declaration in ABAP

● Inline declaration make it possible to define variable and work areas on the fly. There is no need to write a
separate lines for variable declaration.

E.g. DATA(wa_data) or @DATA(it_data) statements.

● Inline Declaration reduces the of lines of code.

 DATA: Used to Declares a Object of any data type.
● OLD SYNTAX:

● NEW SYNTAX:
 Loop at into work area
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 Call method:
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 Loop at assigning
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 Read assigning
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 Select into table
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 Read Table Index:
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● NEW SYNTAX:
 Read Table using key
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● NEW SYNTAX:
 Read Table with key
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● NEW SYNTAX:
 Read Table with key components
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 Does record exist:
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 Get table Index
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 Corresponding Operator:
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If we use corresponding then don’t

Have to worry about field position.

● NEW SYNTAX:
 Concatenation:
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 Mapping:Used to copy the Data from one internal table to another internal table.

● IT_EMP is the table in which we copied the data from IT_EMP_DATA.

 Except:Used to copy the Data from one internal table to another internal table except
some fields.

● ITAB is the table in which we copied the data from IT_EMP_DATA except EMP_SAL ,
EMP_NAME