Many developers are confused about DIV and MOD in- ABAP- ABAP SQL- CL_ABAP_BIGINT- Other programming languagesThis blog post tries to clarify the confusion. 1. DIV and MOD in ABAPThe definition of DIV and MOD comes from the following mathematical the...
The XML and XSLT support was part of the ABAP programming language for over twenty years. Most things stayed the same in the meantime. With ABAP Environment 2411 or ABAP release 913, three new functions from the XSLT/XPath 2.0 specification have been...
1. Introduction
The fastest in-memory database in ABAP is ... often the ABAP table buffer!
The ABAP table buffer has an innocent-sounding name. Contrary to query buffers, which store the result of a previous query, the ABAP table buffer buffers the ...
1. Introduction
Typically there are two kinds of improvements to a programming language. This first kind makes difficult things easy and the second kind makes impossible things possible. This blog post is about arbitrary precision arithmetic which fa...
Dynamic Structure Component Expressions
1. Introduction
In this blog post I will introduce dynamic structure component expressions. This blog post is a sequel to my previous blog post:
A new kind of ABAP expression
Everything in this section only...
Yes, but the real fun begins, when the numbers are negative ;-). Can you extend your bottles example to negative bottle debts and get the ABAP results?
This is just the normal ORDER BY clause.https://help.sap.com/doc/abapdocu_757_index_htm/7.57/en-US/index.htm?file=abaporderby_clause.htm#!ABAP_ALTERNATIVE_4@4@In 757 the ABAP help is not very good for this though. It will be better in later releases....
You mean POW. Bigint and Rational support POW and Bigint even supports POWMOD which is
"a^b mod m" where b is a big !!! integer.
With EXP(x) I mean the exponential function e^x, where e is Euler's constant 2.7...