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This is a guest article is by Plamen Velkov, who is taking my Beginners Guide To SAP ABAP programming course. This is part 3 of his course review / journey. (See if you can spot his error with the Keywords Calculations. Plamen, do you see it?)
Take it away Plamen…
Performing calculations in ABAP is as simple as in every other programming language. The only different thing is you can perform calculations by keywords as well as the regular mathematical operators. These keywords are mentioned in the course but I’d like to present the whole statement constructions because I came across some while examining some ABAP code. The statements are fairly logical but still – here they are:
| Operation | Regular math. Statement | Statement using Keyword |
| Addition | c = a + b | ADD a TO b. |
| Subtraction | c = a – b | SUBTRACT b FROM a. |
| Multiplication | c = a * b | MULTIPLY a BY b. |
| Division | c = a / b | DIVIDE a BY b. |
Another thing came on my mind – the Power operator (**) was not mentioned in the course. It’s also a simple thing to do – if you want to calculate the following:
c = 2 to the power 16
You just have to use this statement:
c = 2 ** 16.
Calculations in structuresWhile I was moving through some ABAP code in my company’s system I saw some statements that surprised me at first. They seemed partly familiar but not at all – the first part of the statement was a regular arithmetic calculation keyword and the second was the CORRESPONDING keyword. I googled the statement and found out that we can use those kind of statements to perform arithmetic operations between the components of structures. The statements I talk about are the following:
This is a guest article is by Plamen Velkov, who is taking my Beginners Guide To SAP ABAP programming course. This is part 2 of his course review / journey.
Take it away Plamen…
Following on from my last article where I discussed the first module of the SAP ABAP Beginners Course, I have now want to cover the module 2 – Data Dictionary and module 3 – Introducing the ABAP Editor.
ABAP’s Data Dictionary was also a strange term to me. Moreover the notation that it’s one of the important tools in the ABAP workbench seemed weird. Because I was used to MySQL’s command line, I never thought it would be so much easier to create and maintain a table through such an interface.
This is a guest article is by Plamen Velkov, a Linux Server Administrator from Bulgaria. Plamen connected with me through this website and told me how much he wants to move into the SAP arena specifically the ABAP programming side. Because of this he has recently signed up to my Beginners Guide To SAP ABAP programming course.
It was great to listen to his enthusiasm to get started and he went on to tell me how he plans on using the training course as a stepping stone to landing a new job as a junior ABAP programming.
To help keep Plamen on track to meet his goal we agreed that it would be a great idea for him to write about his journey and learning experiences here at saptraininghq.com and give his own views on the different modules of the ABAP Course.
I am sure many others are in a similar situation to Plamen and I urge you to leave your own comments at the end of his first article and follow along with him on this journey.
Take it away Plamen…
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