Ways to flip a Boolean

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Whenever working with booleans while writing code there is almost always a scenario where one has to flip the boolean state i.e. true to false or vice-versa based on some condition.

In this post, I wanted to showcase different ways to do so.

Using Control statements:

Using ABAP logical functions such as boolc and xsdbool :

Hope you like it and use it in your day-to-day development. 

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