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ABAP Keyword Documentation → ABAP Glossary →chained attribute access
Chaining in which multiple functional methods or constructor expressions are joined using component selectors, where the return values or results of the individual methods or expressions are each references to the next methods and the return value or result of the last method or expression references an attribute that is used as an operand. See also chained name.