Declaring Data
This section describes how to declare data in ABAP programs. To be able to do this, you should be familiar with the ABAP type concept which defines the relationship between data types and data objects.
The ABAP type concept is introduced in the
Introduction to Data Types and ObjectsThe following topics describe

Throughout this guide, the term ‘field’ is used for data objects.
In general, a field can be
It will always be clear exactly what ‘field’ means from the context.