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ID DESCRIBE • DESCRIBE ABAP Statement
DESCRIBE
ABAP_SYNTAX_FORMS
Field Properties 1 DESCRIBE FIELD ...
Properties of an Internal Table 2 DESCRIBE TABLE ...
Distance Between Two Fields 3 DESCRIBE DISTANCE ...
What does it do? The variants of the statement DESCRIBE listed above can be used to determine some of the properties that data objects have at runtime.
Latest notes:
The statement DESCRIBE is mainly suitable for determining the properties of data objects of elementary data types. When DESCRIBE is used for structures or data objects of deep data types like strings, internal tables, or reference variables, only elementary properties can be determined. Additional information, for example the static or dynamic type of a reference variable, cannot be determined by DESCRIBE. For this kind of information, the type description classes of runtime type services (RTTS) should be used. These enable all data object properties of all data types to be determined. Since the functions of the RTTS type description classes cover all functions of the DESCRIBE statement, the system classes can be used instead of the statement.
The variant DESCRIBE LIST determines the properties of lists in the list buffer. ABAP_HINT_END
