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CREATE DATA - TYPE abap_type
Other versions: 7.31 | 7.40 | 7.54
Syntax
CREATE DATA dref [area_handle]
TYPE {abap_type|(name)}
[LENGTH len] [DECIMALS dec].
Effect
For abap_type
, all
predefined data types (apart from b
and s
)
can be used that are more dedicated than the static type of dref
or are identical
to it. As an alternative, a character-type name
data object can be specified
in brackets, which when the statement is executed contains the name of a predefined data type, upper/lower case is not taken into account here.
For ABAP types c
, n
, p
and x
, the length of the dtype
data type can be
determined by the specification of a numeric len
data object after the
LENGTH addition, which when the statement is executed contains a value for the length within the interval limits from the
table of built-in ABAP types/ If the
LENGTH addition is not specified, the standard length from the table is used. For all other ABAP
types, the length is determined by the value in the table and the LENGTH
addition must not be specified.
For the ABAP type p
, the number of
fractional portions
can be determined by the specification of a numeric data object dec
after
the DECIMALS
addition, which when the statement is executed contains a value
within the interval limits from the table of built-in ABAP types for the fractional portion. If the
DECIMALS
addition is not specified, no fractional portions are created. So that the decimal separator is taken into consideration for operations with packed numbers, the
program attribute
fixed point arithmetic has to be set, otherwise the DECIMALS
only affects
output formatting on screen and in the statement WRITE
[TO]. For all other ABAP types and for the dynamic specification of name
, the DECIMALS
addition is not permitted.
Example