ABAP command "import from database..."

Can someone in this forum explain to me the low level details behind the ABAP command "import from database"?
The select in tables like stxl, indx, moni just retrieves data in hex format for the fields of type raw or lraw.
But the command import from database works fine!
What's the magic? Compression? Hash algorithms? etc?
Thanks!

When you import a field from a database, it should be the same name and format when it was exported. These databases are a cluster table where data is stored in raw. I assumed it will read the cluster portion of the record and convert it into the field structure byte by byte. These tables have field CLUSTR which store the byte size of the record. So if you are willing to program the read, where you find out the length of the field you want to IMPORT, then read that number of byte from the cluster data, move it to the field you are importing, you should be able to do your own read. However, if we can do it in 1 statement using IMPORT, we don't need to program it.
Cluster table is used to save space since you don't need to create a new database record for each line of internal table you stored into them. Hope this helps.

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general type
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ec

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