Just a tiny tip for a little shortcut I discovered today. When working with inline declarations, the type may be wrong, we may be doing dynamic programming, or we want to change the data type such as when reading order numbers from a text field.
ASSIGN sometextfield TO FIELD-SYMBOL(<salesorder>). "<== text/string
Inline declarations like this need to be changed to an explicit FIELD-SYMBOLS declaration up front.
However I discovered a neat way to do this when using Field Symbols, namely with CASTING TYPE:
ASSIGN sometextfield TO FIELD-SYMBOL(<ordernumber>) CASTING TYPE vbeln.
Some of you may of course already know this. CASTING TYPE has been around since well before 7.4, which is why I never considered using it for inline declarations. But it worked, and I thought it is an elegant and readable way to do an inline field symbol constructor with type conversion.
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