Data Interfaces

Binary Mode and Text Mode
Binary mode Text mode
ABAP/4
program A B C
A B
A B C D
TRANSFER
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A B C A B A B C D
READ DATASET
ABAP/4
program A B C
A B A
B C D
READ DATASET
ABAP/4
program A B C
A B
A B C D
ABAP/4
program A B C
A B
A B C
TRANSFER
A B C A B A B C D
The example above illustrates the difference between binary mode and text mode:
Three fields of different lengths are transferred at any one time. The data is then read into three fields of
the same length.
In text mode, the operating system-specific line-end character is set after every data record.
Blanks at the end of a data record are not suppressed in text mode.