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ABAP Keyword Documentation → ABAP Glossary →chained method call
A chaining in which multiple functional methods or constructor expressions are joined using component selectors, whereby the return values or results of the individual methods become the references to the subsequent methods. A chained method call can either be specified as a functional method call or as a standalone statement.