ABAP REPORTS: ABAP Syntax for Move

Variant 1

MOVE f TO g.

Effect

Moves the contents of field f to field g . Field f remains unchanged.

This statement is equivalent to:

g = f.

Example

DATA: NUMBER TYPE I,
FIVE TYPE I.
MOVE 5 TO FIVE.
MOVE FIVE TO NUMBER.
The fields NUMBER and FIVE now both 5.

Multiple assignments like NUMBER = FIVE = 5. are also possible. ABAP/4 executes them from right to left .

If the field types or lengths differ, type conversion follows automatically. Type I fields are handled like type P fields. If we select the fixed point arithmetic attribute for an ABAP/4 program, type P fields are either rounded according to the number of decimal places or filled with zeros.

In contrast to WRITE TO , the decimal character is always a period (.), regardless of the specification in the user master. MOVE allows you to copy tables and structures which contain other tables.

Two tables can be copied only if this is possible for their respective lines. If the line types are incompatible, conversions are performed line by line. If itab is a table with a header line, the table itself can be addressed with itab[] .

Run time errors

BCD_BADDATA : Source field (type P ) does not contain the correct BCD format
BCD_FIELD_OVERFLOW : Result field defined too small (type P )
BCD_OVERFLOW : Arithmetic operation overflow (type P )
CONVT_NO_NUMBER : Source field cannot be interpreted as a number
CONVT_OVERFLOW : Source field conversion overflow
MOVE_COMPLEX_OVERLAP : Assignment not allowed for deep structures in case they overlap
MOVE_NOT_SUPPORTED : Assignment between types involved is not supported
MOVE_TO_LIT_NOTALLOWED : Constants and literals must not be overwritten