Doubt in ABAP Data types

Hi friends,
I want a clear idea of what is the diference between data type 'f' and 'p' with examples and in what situation which should be used.
Similary what and where is 'x' and 'xstring' is used .. In what situations we 'll handly BYTE data ?????
Iam not at all clear ... so eagerly waiting for ur responses with sample examples and clear explanations
thanks in advance
Cheers,
R.Kripa.

Hi Kripa,
Types X and XSTRING are for binary data. For type X, the length of the data is specified at declaration, whereas for XSTRING, it can arbitrarily grow as for STRING.
X binary octets RAW base64 string
Type X is used for binary octets. The length of the octets sequence must be specified at declaration. The initial value of each octet is 0.
The lexical representation of binary octets is a sequence of characters in the MIME base64 format.
There are two possible representations of data of type X, namely base64 and hex. base64 is a preferred binary coding scheme in the Internet community. There are standard libraries for encoding and decoding. base64 uses about 33% less space over hex coding. Although ABAP MOVE uses hex coding for binary to character conversion, base64 will be used to represent data of this type in XML.
Note that the sequence of octets is transformed by the base64 encoding. The result, interpreted as a sequence of US-ASCII characters, appears as a sequence of Unicode characters in the content of that element.
Dictionary type RAW corresponds to this type.
XSTRING variable length binary octets RAWSTRING base64 string
Type XSTRING is used for a variable length binary octets. The initial value is ''. The length can vary as the string grows.
The lexical representation of this type is the same as Type X.
This type corresponds to the binary type.
Dictionary type RAWSTRING corresponds to this type.
Regards,
Raj

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Moderator message: please search for available information/documentation.
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   Re: What is deffernce b/w Data type and message type
Posted: Jun 13, 2007 8:05 AM    in response to: suresh k         Reply      E-mail this post
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