After coming into contact with ABAP, developers with experience in other programming languages often wonder if there is a
ternary operator available in ABAP similar to the construct
a ? b : c.
Unfortunately, there is not.
However, using 7.40 syntax, we can achieve something that comes pretty close with the
conditional operator COND:
DATA(is_even) = COND #(
WHEN number MOD 2 EQ 0
THEN abap_true
ELSE abap_false ).
The code above is equivalent to the more conventional if-else statement below:
IF number MOD 2 EQ 0.
DATA(is_even) = abap_true.
ELSE.
is_even = abap_false.
ENDIF.
Finally, note that for this particular example, filling a boolean variable based on a condition, the more concise
xsdbool function can be used:
DATA(is_even) = xsdbool( number MOD 2 EQ 0 ).
