topic Re: Fields beginning with a $ sign in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Fields beginning with a $ sign

former_member201275 — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:26:34 GMT

Occassionally I come across fields that have a $ as first character.

For example program MIT30F12 has field $kurs and many more beginning with $.

Is there any particular reason for this? It seems when I debug it performs pretty much the same as a normal field so I am just trying to understand the logic for this.

Any pointers greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Re: Fields beginning with a $ sign

alok_patra — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:06:55 GMT

Hi Glen,

Interesting but no clue!! Might be this is just auto generated code.

Refer http://scn.sap.com/thread/879442... still it is a view, no standard answer.

regards,

Alok

Re: Fields beginning with a $ sign

Former Member — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:37:40 GMT

There is no particular reason.

Variable name can have any character except + . , : ( )

Several languages have dollar sign prefixed before variable name. e.g. Javascript, Ruby etc

So there is a good chance that the person who declared variable name starting with dollar used to program in different language that had rule or convention of using dollar sign.

Re: Fields beginning with a $ sign

Former Member — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 03:10:15 GMT

There is no specific reason for it. Like Alok said, it maybe part of generated code. You can also see the similar scenario in PBO and PAI of a report program with selection screen.

Regards,

~Athreya