ELSEIF (ABAP Keyword)

ELSEIF (ABAP Keyword) introduction & syntax details

ELSEIF

Basic
form
ELSEIF logexp.

Effect
Within a processing block enclosed by ”
IF … ENDIF “, this statement indicates the processing to be executed if the
logical expressions specified by IF and the preceding ELSEIF s are false, but
the logical expression in this ELSEIF processing block is true.
Between the
IF and ENDIF statements, there may be any number of ELSEIF s. These may be
followed, optionally, by an ELSE statement, but this is executed only if none of
the logical expressions under IF or ELSEIF is true.

Example

DATA
RESULT TYPE I.

IF RESULT < 0.
WRITE / ‘Result less than
zero’.
ELSEIF RESULT = 0.
WRITE / ‘Result equal zero’.
ELSE.
WRITE /
‘Result greater than zero’.
ENDIF.

Depending on the value of
RESULT , the three different texts are output.
Related IF ,
ELSE
,
CASE