topic Re: move & assign in Application Development and Automation Discussions

move & assign

Former Member — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:28:17 GMT

diff. between move & assign statement

Re: move & assign

Former Member — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:30:58 GMT

In MOVE actually copies data into another data field.

while ASSIGN is used in field-symbols. and field symbols is used to reference another variable dynamically. So this field symbol will simply point to some other variable and this pointer can be changed at runtime.

(Assign is like Pointer in C)

Re: move & assign

Former Member — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:35:22 GMT

ABAP converts assign Statement into move form, and what ever statements in ABAP if u write using symbols lie +, / , = , it will convert into ADD DIV Move like english statement.

so avoid using symbol it will take time for conversion internally.