ABAP Language

January 2, 2011 v ABAP Tutorial 12

ABAP stands for Advanced Business Application Programming. It is a programming language developed by SAP.

ABAP language syntax

  • ABAP is not case sensitive.
  • Every statement begins with a keyword and ends with a period.( WRITE is the keyword to print on screen ) 
    WRITE 'Hello World!'.
  • Chained statements.If consecutive statements have identical part at the beginning, then ABAP allows you to chain these statements into a single statement. First write the identical part once and then place a colon (:). Then write the remaining parts of the individual statements separated by commas.Normal Statements: 
    WRITE 'Hello'.
WRITE 'ABAP'.

    Chained Statement:

    WRITE: 'Hello', 'ABAP'.
  • Comments.If you want to make the entire line as comment, then enter asterisk (*) at the beginning of the line. 
    * This is a comment line

    If you want to make a part of the line as comment, then enter double quote (“) before the comment.

    WRITE 'COMMENT'.   "Start of comment

12 Comments

  1. SAP hub is fine for beginers but kindly upload also advances abap and other like BAPI,BADI…………………….

  3. Hii all actually I am in chennai Jr sw developer in java I am planing to learn sap or to start coading is this stuff is enough to walk through or do I join some institute for the same

    • Its better to go for institute that will give a perfect basics for you… and find the best institute which gives theoretical cum practical knowledge with real-time scenarios

    • It has scope on SAP over 10 years.But training it’s self cost much.You can also follow me on Likedin
      sashank samayamanthula

  6. Hi, Completed my M.B.A. Iam working as a Accountant . I want to learn SAP. Which is better for me. My special interest is ABAP how types in this ABAP.

  9. I am looking for a career in SAP, a senior suggested to start with ABAP, though I am from non-technical and Sales background.
    what do you suggest

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