Chapter 03_Simple Output Statements.ppt

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Simple Output Statements


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Objectives

The participants will be able to :

List the ABAP write statement

Writing Icons and Symbols

List New-Page statement

Maintaining page header


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The ABAP WRITE Statement

WRITE ********************.

SKIP 2.

WRITE: The date today is:, SY-DATUM,The current time is:, SY-UZEIT.

SKIP 2.WRITE ********************.

1

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

********************

The date today is: 12/30/1996 The current time is: 12:32:06

********************

Notice that there is an automatic spacebetween the fields written to the list.


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ABAP Format Specifications

WRITE 10 ***** City of Philadelphia *****.

SKIP 2.

WRITE: 10 Ticket Date, SY-DATUM.WRITE: /10 Ticket Time, SY-UZEIT.

ULINE /10(60).SKIP 2.

WRITE 10 ***** Department of Public Safety *****.

***** City of Philadelphia *****

Ticket Date 01/01/1997

Ticket Time 18:01:00

-----------------------------------------------------

***** Department of Public Safety *****


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ABAP Format Options

WRITE 10 ***** City of Philadelphia *****.

SKIP 2.

WRITE: 10 Ticket Date, 25 SY-DATUM,/10 Ticket Time, SY-UZEIT UNDER SY-DATUM.

ULINE /10(60).

SKIP 2.

WRITE 10 ***** Department of Public Safety *****.

***** City of Philadelphia *****

Ticket Date 01/01/1997

Ticket Time 18:01:00

------------------------------------------------------------

***** Department of Public Safety *****


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WRITE Statement Extended Syntax

WRITE .

/p(I)

/ = Line Feed

p = Column Position

I = Output Length

Program Field or

Text Literal

Format Options


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Writing Icons and Symbols

INCLUDE .

INCLUDE .

Or

TYPE-POOLS: icon.

TYPE-POOLS: sym.

WRITE: /10 ICON_DATE AS ICON, SY-DATUM,SYM_LEFT_HAND AS SYMBOL.

Execute programs

SHOWICON andSHOWSYMB to display

the systems icons and

symbols.


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Maintaining Page Headers

List header will replace titleon first line of standard

header.

Up to four lines of columnheadings can be maintained

for the list. The title comes from theprograms attributes.


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Demonstration

Exploring ABAP Write statement with various options.


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Practice

Exploring ABAP Write statement with various options.


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Numbered Texts (Text Symbols)

WRITE: / TEXT-001, BIG BLUE,/ TEXT-002, TEST IT.

Text symbols are referenced

by a unique three-character

code.


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Demonstration

Creation of text symbols and using that in the write statement.


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Practice

Creation of text symbols and using that in the write statement.


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Summary

The WRITE statement outputs the contents of a field or constant in a formatconsistent with the data type.

The SKIP statement creates blank lines.

The NEW-PAGE statement starts a new page.

For writing Icon and Symbols in the report, TYPE-POOL ICON & SYM need to

be included in the program respectively.

Text elements can be maintained in multiple languages, so the display to the user

will depend on the users specified logon language.


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Questions

What are the various options associated with the WRITE statement ?

What does the NEW-PAGE statement do ?

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