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Method Chaining

This example demonstrates method chaining in an operand position.

Other versions: 7.31 | 7.40 | 7.54

Source Code

    DATA oref TYPE REF TO demo.
    DATA msg  TYPE string.
    CREATE OBJECT oref.
    msg = oref->meth( `Hello ` )->meth( `world` )->meth( `!` )->text.
    MESSAGE msg TYPE 'I'.

Description

A chained attribute access is performed on the attribute text of the class demo. The attribute is changed by three chained method calls.