TYPE and LIKE

Former Member — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 02:53:40 GMT

what is the difference between the key words 'TYPE' and 'LIKE', In wht scenarios we can we use them, and in what r the scenarios we cant use these.

Re: TYPE and LIKE

former_member194669 — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 04:18:03 GMT

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Former Member — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 04:33:19 GMT

hi,

TYPE addition:

With TYPE addition, you can refer either to local data types of the

same ABAP program or on global data types of the Dictionaries.

Local types mask global types that have the same names. When typing

the interface parameters or field symbols, a reference is also

possible to generic types ANY, ANY TABLE,INDEX TABLE, TABLE or

STANDARD TABLE, SORTED TABLE and HASHED TABLE.

LIKE addition:

With the LIKE addition, you can refer to all visible data objects

at the ABAP program's positon in question. Only the declaration of

the data object must be known. In this case it is totally

irrelevant whether the data object already exists physically in

memory during the LIKE reference. Local data objects mask global

data objects that have the same name.

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