Data Interfaces

Formats
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Internal table (ABAP/4)
F1 F2 F3
A B C
D E F
. . .
. . .
Spreadsheet
Format DAT
A B C
D E F
. . . . . .
. . . . . .
Internal table (ABAP/4)
F1 F2 F3 . . .
A B C . . .
D E F . . .
G H I . . .
. . .
Spreadsheet
Format WK1
With UPLOAD and DOWNLOAD, another format available for conversions apart from ASC (ASCII)
and BIN (binary) is DAT for Excel. With DOWNLOAD, WK1 is also available for Excel and Lotus.
For the format DAT, table columns are divided by a tabulator character and the table lines by carriage
return and line feed.
For the format WK1, the data of a table is entered in a WK1-specific spreadsheet.