Putting Single Quote in any field

Hi All,
What is the purpose of putting ' ' (Single Quote) in any of the field?
Example:
Object:F_BKPF_BUK
Field:
ACTVT:01
BUKRS:' ' -
> What does this imply?

Hi,
what do you mean by 'single quote'? If you mean 'blank', this has the same meaning as an empty value in the field. So if the application checks for any value, but not for an empty field, the check will fail.
Regarding the docu: you can access it through some different ways, for instance in SE38->display source code of any report->press the blue 'I' infobutton->enter ABAP key-word authority-check, select authority-check->abap statement, enjoy the documentation.
b.rgds, Bernhard
Edited by: Bernhard Hochreiter on Sep 15, 2008 3:31 PM

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