CHECK SYNTAX FOR SAP ABAP

Basic form

CASE f.
Effect Case distinction.

Depending on the current contents of a field, this statement executes one of several alternative processing branches. The field whose contents determine how the subsequent processing is specified after CASE ; the individual processing branches are introduced by WHEN , followed by the value to be tested. The entire block is concluded by ENDCASE . The structure of the CASE statement is as follows:

CASE f.

  WHEN f1.

    ...

  WHEN f2.

    ...

  ...

ENDCASE.

On
reaching such a CASE statement, the processor compares f with f1 .

If f = f1 , it executes the processing block between " WHEN f1. " and
the next WHEN statement. If there are no further WHEN statements, it executes
the processing block up to the ENDCASE statement and then continues with any
subsequent processing.

If f <> f1 , the processor compares the field f2 in the next WHEN
statement with f and proceeds as with f1 and so on.



Although f should be a variable, f1 can be a variable or a literal. For the
comparison " f = f1 ", the rules are the same as for IF .



There is a second variant of the WHEN statement:



WHEN OTHERS.

No more than one such WHEN statement is allowed within a CASE block. The "
WHEN OTHERS " processing block is always concluded by ENDCASE , i.e. no
further WHEN statements can follow.



The " WHEN OTHERS " processing block is executed only if none of the
preceding WHEN blocks have been executed, i.e. if all previous comparisons
(" f = ... ) have returned a negative result. 

Example

DATA: ONE TYPE I VALUE 1, THREE TYPE P VALUE 3.DO 5 TIMES. CASE SY-INDEX. WHEN ONE. WRITE / 'That is'. WHEN 2. WRITE 'a'. WHEN THREE. WRITE 'good'. WRITE 'example'. WHEN OTHERS. WRITE '!'. ENDCASE.ENDDO.

Output: " That is a good example ! ! "

Notes

You can nest several CASE statements and even combine them with IF statements.
The statement " WHEN: f1, f2. " does not make sense. The example below shows that the block belonging to " WHEN f1 " is empty:

WHEN f1.
WHEN f2.

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