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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. Notice that there is an automatic space
WRITE ‘********************’. between the fields written to the list.

<program title> 1
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
********************

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

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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 <format> <value> <options> .

<format>

/p(I)
/ = Line Feed <value>
p = Column Position
I = Output Length
Program Field or <options>
Text Literal

Format Options

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“NEW-PAGE” Statement

WRITE ‘***** City of Philadelphia *****’.

SKIP.
WRITE: / ‘Ticket Date’, 15 SY-DATUM.
WRITE: / ‘Ticket Time’, 15 SY-UZEIT.
SKIP.
WRITE ‘***** Department of Public Safety *****’.
NEW-PAGE.
WRITE: ‘Comments:’.

<program title> 1
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
***** City of Philadelphia *****
Ticket Date 01/01/1997
Ticket Time 18:01:00

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

<program title> 2
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Comments:

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Writing Icons and Symbols

INCLUDE <ICON>.
INCLUDE <SYMBOL>.
Or
TYPE-POOLS: icon.
TYPE-POOLS: sym.
WRITE: /10 ICON_DATE AS ICON, SY-DATUM,
SYM_LEFT_HAND AS SYMBOL.

Execute programs
“SHOWICON” and
“SHOWSYMB” to display
the system’s icons and
symbols.

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Maintaining Page Headers

List header will replace title

on first line of standard
header.

Up to four lines of column

headings can be maintained
for the list. The title comes from the
program’s 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 format

consistent 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 user’s 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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