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Field-Symbols are ABAP's equivalent to pointers, except that Field-Symbols are always dereferenced (it is not possible to change the actual address in memory). Declaration To declare a Field-Symbol the keyword FIELD-SYMBOLS must be used. Types can be generic (ANY [... TABLE]) to handle a wide vari...

Essential for data references is the addition REF TO after TYPE. Dynamic Creation of Structures If the type of a structure should be decided on runtime, we can define our target structure as reference to the generic type data. DATA wa TYPE REF TO data. To give wa a type we use the statement CR...

RunTime Type Services (short: RTTS) are used either for: creating types (RunTime Type Creation; short: RTTC) analysing types (RunTime Type Identification; short: RTTI) Classes CL_ABAP_TYPEDESCR | |--CL_ABAP_DATADESCR | | | |--CL_ABAP_ELEMDESCR | |--CL_ABAP_REFDESCR ...