ABAP Tutorials » literals http://www.abap-tutorials.com ABAP Tutorials, Guides, Training, Manuals Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:43:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Difference between “‘” and “`” in ABAP http://www.abap-tutorials.com/2009/07/26/difference-between-and-in-abap/ http://www.abap-tutorials.com/2009/07/26/difference-between-and-in-abap/#comments Sun, 26 Jul 2009 04:49:43 +0000 Admin http://naveenvishal.wordpress.com/?p=477 A basic difference: still I find that most of the programmer hardly uses string literal. String literal is generally a forgotten case.

A character sequence within single quote characters (‘) is a char literal, while within (`) is a string literal. That is especially important for trailing spaces: a string literal preserves the trailing space while a char literal ignores them.

This can be best understood by the following example:

DATA v_char TYPE c LENGTH 32.
v_char = 'This is a'.
CONCATENATE v_char 'text   ' INTO v_char SEPARATED BY space.
*" v_char would be "This is a text"
CONCATENATE v_char `text   ` INTO v_char SEPARATED BY space.
*" v_char would be "This is a text   "

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