MULTIPLY-CORRESPONDING

Basic form

MULTIPLY-CORRESPONDING struc1 BY struc2.

This statement is not allowed in an ABAP Objects context. See Cannot Perform Arithmetic Operations on Identically-Named Structure Components

Effect

Interprets struc1 and struc2 as field strings. If, for example, struc1 and struc2 are tables, executes the statement for their header lines.
Searches for all sub-fields which occur both in struc1 and struc2 and then generates, for all field pairs corresponding to the sub-fields ni, statements of the form

MULTIPLY struc1-ni BY struc2-ni.

The other fields remain unchanged.

With complex structures, the full names of the corresponding field pairs must be identical.

Example

DATA: BEGIN OF MONEY,
        VALUE_IN(20) VALUE 'German marks'.
        USA TYPE I VALUE 100,
        FRG TYPE I VALUE 200,
        AUT TYPE I VALUE 300,
      END   OF MONEY,
      BEGIN OF CHANGE,
        DESCRIPTION(30)
            VALUE 'DM to national currency'.
        USA TYPE F VALUE '0.6667',
        FRG TYPE F VALUE '1.0',
        AUT TYPE F VALUE '7.0',
      END   OF CHANGE.
MULTIPLY-CORRESPONDING MONEY BY CHANGE.
MONEY-VALUE_IN = 'National currency'.

The above MULTIPLY-CORRESPONDING statement is equivalent to the following three statements:

MULTIPLY MONEY-USA BY CHANGE-USA.
MULTIPLY MONEY-FRG BY CHANGE-FRG.
MULTIPLY MONEY-AUT BY CHANGE-AUT.

Note

All fields with identical names are multiplied, whether numeric or not. The conversions performed are similar to those for MULTIPLY.

Exceptions

Catchable Exceptions

CX_SY_ARITHMETIC_OVERFLOW

• Cause: Overflow with conversion / arithmetic operation (T P)
  Runtime Error: BCD_OVERFLOW (catchable)
  
• Cause: Integer overflow with multiplication
  Runtime Error: COMPUTE_INT_TIMES_OVERFLOW (catchable)
  

CX_SY_CONVERSION_OVERFLOW

• Cause: Overflow with conversion / arithmetic operation (T P, with specified length)
  Runtime Error: BCD_FIELD_OVERFLOW (catchable)
  
  
  

Related

MULTIPLY, MOVE-CORRESPONDING, ADD-CORRESPONDING, SUBTRACT-CORRESPONDING, DIVIDE-CORRESPONDING

Additional help

Arithmetic Calculations