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Unicode Fragment View

The Unicode fragment view splits a structure into fragments. A fragment is a grouping of structure components of the same or similar data types. In nested structures, the elementary components on the lowest nesting depth are taken into account when forming fragments in nested structures. The following parts of a structure are each grouped to form fragments:

Notes

Example

DATA:
  BEGIN OF struc,
    a TYPE c LENGTH 3,
    b TYPE n LENGTH 4,
    c TYPE d,
    d TYPE t,
    e TYPE decfloat16,
    f TYPE x LENGTH 2,
    g TYPE x LENGTH 4,
    h TYPE i,
    i TYPE i,
    j TYPE i,
    k TYPE i,
  END OF struc.

The structure struc contains the following Unicode fragments in a Unicode system in which character-like fields are represented by 2 bytes per character. Alignment gaps are marked with an A.

Fragment Components Bytes
1 a, b, c, d 6+8+16+12
2 A 6
3 e 8
4 f, g 2+4
5 A 2
6 h, i, j, k 4+4+4+4