SAP ABAP DECLARATIONS

Generic ABAP types

Type Description

any - Any data type
any table - Internal table with any table type
c - Text field with a generic length
clike - Character-like (c, n, and string plus the date/time types d, t and character-like flat structures)
csequence - Text-like (c, string)
data - Any data type
decfloat - Decimal floating point number (decfloat16, decfloat34)
hashed table - Hashed table
index table - Index table
n - Numeric text with generic length
numeric - Numeric ((b, s), i, int8, p, decfloat16, decfloat34, f)
object - Any object type (root class of the inheritance hierarchy)
p - Packed number with generic length and generic number of decimal places
simple - Elementary data type including enumerated types and structured types with exclusively character-like flat components
sorted table - Sorted table
standard table - Standard table
table - Standard table
x - Byte field with generic length
xsequence - Byte-like (x, xstring)