Video Lesson 4.5: ABAP Structures

This lesson gives you an overview of ABAP structures, what they are and what they are used for.

We will continue with the definition of structured data objects (structure variables). Also, this chapter will teach you how to use basic ABAP statements for structured data objects.

• In ABAP, you can define structured data objects (called structure variables or simply structures).
• This allows you to combine values that belong together logically into one data object.
• Structures can be nested.
• This means that components can be made up of more structures or even internal tables.
• In the program, structure variables are defined with the DATA statement, in the same way as elementary data objects.

When you set the types, you can refer to:

• A Dictionary structure.
• A transparent table (that is then used as a structure type)
• a structure type that is declared locally in the program