ABAP Statement meaning

Former Member — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:33:56 GMT

Hi,

please someone explain me what the below function will do

Cerner value will be 5 or 6 charecter lenght

SHIFT cernr RIGHT DELETING TRAILING space.

OVERLAY cernr WITH '000000000000'.

Thanks,

GAL

Re: ABAP Statement meaning

Former Member — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:48:11 GMT

See the following:

DATA: cernr(6) type c.

cernr = 'ABC'.

SHIFT cernr RIGHT DELETING TRAILING space.

will give the result of

cernr = ' ABC'

So it puts in blanks untill cern has reached it's defined length.

OVERLAY cernr WITH '000000000000'.

will give the result of

cernr = '000ABC'.

So it puts in a number of ' 0' until cern had reached it's defined lenght or for a number of 12 times ' 0' .

Best regards,

Guido Koopmann