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 highlighted argument positions 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> TYPEtype

ASSIGN TABLE FIELD (f)

ASSIGN (f) TO <fs>

ASSIGN LOCAL COPY OF MAIN TABLE FIELD (f) TO <fs>

ASSIGN COMPONENTname OF STRUCTURE struc TO <fs>

ASSIGN LOCAL COPY OF (f) TO <fs>

CALL SELECTION-SCREEN scr USING SELECTION-SETset

CLOSE DATASETdsn

CREATE OBJECT ref TYPE (class)

CREATE DATA dref TYPE (type)

DELETE FROM dbtab WHERE ...
  (applies toall strings in the WHERE clause)

EDITOR-CALL FOR REPORTprog

EDITOR-CALL FOR itab TITLEtext

GENERATE DYNPRO ... IDid

GENERATE REPORTprog

GENERATE SUBROUTINE POOL itab NAMEname

IMPORT DYNPRO ... IDid

MESSAGE xnnn WITHf1 ...f4

MESSAGE ID id TYPEmtype NUMBERn

NEW-PAGE PRINT ON ...  (applies toall additions)

OPEN DATASET dsn ...

  ... TYPEc

  ... MESSAGEm

  ... FILTERf

PERFORM (form)

  ... IN PROGRAM (prog)

SET PF-STATUSpfstat

  ... EXCLUDINGf

  ... OF PROGRAMprog

SET TITLEBARtitle

  ... OF PROGRAMprog

SET USER-COMMANDcmd

SUBMIT  rep ... TO SAP-SPOOL ...  (applies toall additions)

SUBMIT rep ... WITH FREE SELECTIONStexpr

TRANSFER f TOdsn

UPDATE dbtab WHERE ...
  (applies toall strings in the WHERE clause)

WRITE ...

  ... CURRENCYw

  ... UNITu