ABAP TIP - Function of‘&’ symbol

ABAP TIP - Function of‘&’ symbol

& symbol has a meaning of parameter. Representative examples for & is when passing the parameter to MACRO like below program.

REPORT  z01_01. DATA: gv_val1 TYPE c VALUE 'A',        gv_val2 TYPE c VALUE 'B',        gv_val3 TYPE char3. DEFINE con.   CONCATENATE &1 &2 INTO &3 SEPARATED BY space.   dis &3. END-OF-DEFINITION. DEFINE dis.   WRITE &1. END-OF-DEFINITION. con gv_val1 gv_val2 gv_val3.

& symbol also is useful when assigning the title of screen.

If you declare the & in title of screen, you can define the screen title with the below command.

  SET TITLEBAR 'T0001' WITH 'Title Test'.

 

Definitely, you can declare 2 parameter with &, the title of screen is named like below command.

  

SET TITLEBAR 'T0001' WITH 'Title' 'Test'.