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Regarding Flag type

Former Member — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:42:50 GMT

Hi ,

Can you please tell me what should be the tyep of flag?In all standard ABAP programs they have used X and space .But i have a doubt.Cant we use 1 or 0 and whether the Flag can be of type integer in this case?

Re: Regarding Flag type

Former Member — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:44:22 GMT

There is no specific or standard definition for definning a Flag type.

You can use anything. or anytype

Re: Regarding Flag type

Former Member — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:45:59 GMT

Hi ,

It can be interger but the Lentgh will be more than one. If you want 1 or 0 as flag values you can use Data type as N with length 1.

Generally Flag are declared as one length varables.

Re: Regarding Flag type

Former Member — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:47:44 GMT

Flag is a general representation for our purpose to distinguish the things (Mainly True/False or Filled/Not Filled).

So u can use what ever format u r comfortable.

If u r using 0/1, u can declare it as charcter. No completion that u shd declare as Numeric.

Re: Regarding Flag type

Former Member — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:52:38 GMT

Thank you for the reply.I got it.If we use type I then it will allote 4 bytes of space.So it is better to declare type as C or N with length as 1.

Edited by: Deepthi navel on Nov 18, 2008 10:53 AM