ABAP has a strange behaviour when division by zero is considered.
Mathematically: Division by zero is undefined. Also all the other programming languages raise an exception when a number is divided by 0.
However ABAP has a strange an unexpected behavior in this regard.
ABAP raises an exception CX_SY_ZERODIVIDE when any number is divided by 0 but not when the dividend is also 0.
Example:
CASE I
data : dividend type i value 10.
data : divisor type i value 0.
data : answer type i.
answer = dividend / divisor. ->> Raises an exception CX_SY_ZERODIVIDE.
CASE II
data : dividend type i value 0.
data : divisor type i value 0.
data : answer type i.
answer = dividend / divisor. ->> No exception raised
answer will contain 0 as a result.
This is an arbitrary behaviour of ABAP and coders should take care to handle this situation in their code.
The runtime error associated with the zero divide exception is BCD_ZERODIVIDE.
Mathematically: Division by zero is undefined. Also all the other programming languages raise an exception when a number is divided by 0.
However ABAP has a strange an unexpected behavior in this regard.
ABAP raises an exception CX_SY_ZERODIVIDE when any number is divided by 0 but not when the dividend is also 0.
Example:
CASE I
data : dividend type i value 10.
data : divisor type i value 0.
data : answer type i.
answer = dividend / divisor. ->> Raises an exception CX_SY_ZERODIVIDE.
data : dividend type i value 0.
data : divisor type i value 0.
data : answer type i.
answer = dividend / divisor. ->> No exception raised
answer will contain 0 as a result.
This is an arbitrary behaviour of ABAP and coders should take care to handle this situation in their code.
The runtime error associated with the zero divide exception is BCD_ZERODIVIDE.
