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Declaration Positions

Declaration positions are writing-only positions in which a declaration expression can be specified for an inline declaration. There are no declaration positions within expressions.

The following declaration positions are possible:

Note

Unlike in standalone method calls, in a functional method call inline declarations cannot be specified as actual parameters for output parameters.

Example

Declaration expression DATA for declaring an internal table itab after the addition INTO TABLE of a SELECT statement.

SELECT *
       FROM scarr
       INTO TABLE @DATA(itab).