ABAP Field Symbols and Field Groups

What are field symbols and field groups?

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manasnayak5

  • Oct 26th, 2009
 

Field Symbols: Field symbols are symbolic names for various fields. They can point to any data object. it is same as dereference pointers in C. They are idebntified in the program code.

Syntax: FIELD-SYMBOLS <FS> [<TYPE>| STRUCTURE <S> DEFAULT <WA>]
             FS-name of field symbol
             S-- name of Structure
             WA-name of work area

Field Group:A field group combines several existing fields together under one name. You use the INSERT statement to determine which fields belong to a field group at runtime.

Example

FIELD-GROUPS: HEADER, ORDER, PRODUCT.

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