Creating Simple Lists with the WRITE Statement 

This section describes how to create simple output lists on the screen. To do this, you use ABAP statements WRITE, ULINE, and SKIP .

This section includes the following topics:

The WRITE Statement

Positioning WRITE Output on the Screen

Formatting Options

Displaying Symbols and Icons on the Screen

Lines and Blank Lines on the Output Screen

Displaying Field Contents as Checkboxes

Using WRITE through a Statement Structure

ABAP allows you to generate more complex and effective output lists, both on the screen and on paper, than those covered here. The following sections are based on this introduction.