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IMPORT - Short Reference

Reference

Other versions: 7.31 | 7.40 | 7.54

Syntax

IMPORT { {p1 = dobj1 p2 = dobj2 ...} 
       | {p1 TO dobj1  p2 TO dobj2 ...} 

       | (ptab) } 
  FROM { { DATA BUFFER xstr } 
       | { INTERNAL TABLE itab } 

       | { MEMORY ID id } 
       | { DATABASE      dbtab(ar) [TO wa] [CLIENT cl] 

                 
                 {ID id}|{MAJOR-ID id1 [MINOR-ID id2]} 

} 
       | { SHARED MEMORY dbtab(ar) [TO wa] [CLIENT cl] ID id } 
       | { SHARED BUFFER dbtab(ar) [TO wa] [CLIENT cl] ID id } } 

       [ { { { {[ACCEPTING PADDING] [ACCEPTING TRUNCATION]} 
 
           |  [IGNORING STRUCTURE BOUNDARIES] } 

             [ IGNORING CONVERSION ERRORS 

               [REPLACEMENT CHARACTER rc] ] } 

         | [IN CHAR-TO-HEX MODE] } ] 
       [CODE PAGE INTO cp] 
       [ENDIAN INTO endian]. 

Effect

Imports a data cluster to the data objects dobj1, dobj2, ...

Additions

• {p1 = dobj1 p2 = dobj2 ...}|{p1 TO dobj1 p2 TO dobj2 ...}|(ptab)
  Chooses the data to be read through static specification of single parameters via p1 = dobj1 p2 = dobj2 ... resp. p1 TO dobj1 p2 TO dobj2 ... or through dynamic specification in an internal table ptab .
• DATA BUFFER xstr
  Specifies a data cluster stored as a byte sequence in xstr.
• INTERNAL TABLE itab
  Specifies a data cluster stored in an internal table itab.
• MEMORY
  Specifies a data cluster stored in the
  ABAP Memory.
• DATABASE dbtab(ar) [CLIENT cl]
  Specifies a data cluster stored in a database table dbtab in the area ar with the Client Identifier cl
• {SHARED MEMORY}|{SHARED BUFFER} dbtab(ar) [CLIENT cl]
  Specifies a data cluster which was stored in the application buffer of the shared memory of the application server and which is addressed via the name of a database table dbtab, an area ar and a client identifier cl. These two alternatives have different displacement mechanisms.
• ID id
  Specifies the identification id of the Data-Cluster.
• MAJOR-ID id1 [MINOR-ID id2]
  Obsolete: Specifies the identification id of a data cluster in database tables via a sample.
• TO wa
  Specifies a work area wa for the admission of information to the data cluster.
• ACCEPTING PADDING
  Allows reading in longer target fields.
• ACCEPTING TRUNCATION
  Allows reading in shorter target fields.
• IGNORING STRUCTURE BOUNDARIES
  Allows reading in structures with a different design.
• IGNORING CONVERSION ERRORS [REPLACEMENT CHARACTER rc]
  Suppresses exceptions that cannot be handled when converting to the target code page, where rc specifies a replacement character for characters that cannot be converted.
• IN CHAR-TO-HEX MODE
  Allows reading of character-type data in byte sequences.
• CODE PAGE INTO cp
  Returns the code page for the data cluster in cp.
• ENDIAN INTO endian
  Returns the byte sequence of the data cluster in endian.