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Difference between like and type

Former Member

‎02-10-2008 1:42 PM

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Hi,

If is often advised to use type instead of like. Please tell the reason .

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Former Member

‎02-10-2008 2:12 PM

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type is for predefined data type

where as like is for usedefined datatype.

example.

data: a1 type i.

for like

types: a1 type i.

data: a2 like a1.

see here a1 acts like interger datatype and it is a userdefined datatype.

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Former Member

‎02-10-2008 2:16 PM

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Hi,

Please refer to the link below :

Thanks,

Sriram Ponna.

Edited by: Sriram Ponna on Feb 10, 2008 7:47 PM

Edited by: Sriram Ponna on Feb 10, 2008 7:48 PM

Clemenss
Active Contributor

‎02-10-2008 5:13 PM

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Hi Ashish,

TYPE is used as a reference to basic type (i.e. c,i,n,..) or data dictionary type (i.e. data elelement, structure, table, table type...).

LIKE is using as reference to an existing data type.

Because in the past (I guess until Release 2 of R/3) there was no TYPE allowed, everything was LIKE and for upward compatibility reasons you can still use it.

Regards,

Clemens