Chapter 2. Dynamic Programming

In this chapter, we will cover recipes related to dynamic programming. This chapter is designed to provide useful recipes related to field symbols and data references, as well as dynamic SQL and ABAP code generation. In this chapter, we will look at the ways of:

  • Using field symbols and data references to print database table contents
  • Applying dynamic Open SQL
  • Dynamic program generation

Introduction

This chapter explores recipes related to dynamic programming. Dynamic programming is a very vast topic. It may be simply defined as a technique whose behavior/effect is only evident at execution time. There are many facets of dynamic programming with ABAP. These include generic programming such as dynamic source code generation. ...

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