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Assignments

An assignment passes the content of a source to a target data object. A source can be one of the following:

• Data objects

• Return values or results of functional methods, return values or results of built-in functions and constructor expressions, or return values or results of table expressions

• Results of calculation expressions

The following sections describe the rules, operators, and key words where the assignment of source values to target data objects is of significance.

• Assignment and conversion rules

• = - assignment operator

• CONV - conversion operator

• Assigning structure components

• Assigning references

• Lossless assignments

• Special assignments

• Initializations

Assignments also occur, however, in the operand positions of many other statements in which the assignment rules also apply.

Other versions: 7.31 | 7.40 | 7.54

Example

Typical assignment with the assignment operator (=) in which a conversion takes place. During the assignment to a data object num of type i, the current date in the system field sy-datlo is converted to the number of days since 01.01.0001.

DATA num TYPE i. 

num = sy-datlo. 

cl_demo_output=>display( |{ sy-datlo }->{ num }| ).

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Assignment and Conversion Rules

= - Assignment Operator

CONV - Conversion Operator

Assigning Structure Components

Assigning References

Lossless Assignments

Special Assignments

Initializations