ABAP Language

14 years ago

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
```