Unicode Fragment View

The Unicode fragment view splits a structure into fragments. A fragment is a grouping of structure components of the same or similar data types. In nested structures, the elementary components on the lowest nesting depth are taken into account when forming fragments in nested structures. The following parts of a structure are each grouped to form fragments:

• Consecutive flat character-like components of the types c, n, d, and t, between which there are no alignment gaps, form character-like fragments.

• Consecutive flat byte-like components of the type x, between which there are no alignment gaps, form byte-like fragments.

• Consecutive numeric components of the types i, b, s, and f, between which there are no alignment gaps, each form a separate fragment.

• Each individual numeric type p component forms a separate fragment.

• In deep structures, each deep component (reference) forms a separate fragment.

• Each alignment gap is regarded as a fragment.

Notes

• In nested structures, you should note that alignment gaps can arise before and after aligned substructures.

• When transferring structure components with INCLUDE, an additional alignment gap can arise before the components transferred.

Example

BEGIN OF struc,
  a TYPE c LENGTH 3,
  b TYPE n LENGTH 4,
  c TYPE d,
  d TYPE t,
  e TYPE f,
  f TYPE x LENGTH 2,
  g TYPE x LENGTH 4,
  h TYPE i,
  i TYPE i,
  j TYPE i,
  k TYPE i,
END OF struc.

The structure struc contains the following Unicode fragments in a Unicode program in which character-like fields are represented by 2 bytes per character. Alignment gaps are marked with an A.