SET BLANK LINES...

Basic form 8

SET BLANK LINES ON.
SET BLANK LINES OFF.

Effect

These statements allow you to specify whether you want to output blank lines or not. Use SET BLANK LINES ON to output blank lines or SET BLANK LINES OFF to suppress them. The default setting is SET BLANK LINES OFF.

Example

When outputting texts, include blank lines:

TYPES: BEGIN OF TEXTTAB_TYPE,
        LINE(72),
       END   OF TEXTTAB_TYPE.

DATA: TEXTTAB TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF TEXTTAB_TYPE WITH
                   NON-UNIQUE DEFAULT KEY INITIAL SIZE 100,
      WA_TEXTTAB TYPE TEXTTAB_TYPE.

SET BLANK LINES ON.
LOOP AT TEXTTAB INTO WA_TEXTTAB.
  WRITE / WA_TEXTTAB-LINE.
ENDLOOP.

Suppress blank lines again with the statement:

SET BLANK LINES OFF.

Additional help

Output Formatting