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concatenation doubt

Former Member — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 05:24:34 GMT

Hi All,

I want to concatenate all the values of za, zb, zc into zd with a '-' seperating them, i want the value of zd to be 432-313-218. will the following work.

data: zd type i,

za type i,

zb type i,

zc type i.

za = 432.

zb = 313.

zc = 218.

concatenate za '-' zb '-' zc into zd.

write zd.

Re: concatenation doubt

Former Member — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 05:48:53 GMT

Hi,

Data: zd(15),

za(3),

zb(3),

zc(3).

za = 432.

zb = 313.

zc = 218.

concatenate za zb zc into zd separated by '-'.

write zd.

Regards

Sudheer

Re: concatenation doubt

Former Member — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 07:57:00 GMT

Hi,

You can use concatenate only for character fields. First should transfer the integer fields to characters and you can use the function.

Svetlin

Re: concatenation doubt

Former Member — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 07:59:47 GMT

thanks sudheer.

svetlin,

could u tell me how i can transfer from int to char.

Re: concatenation doubt

Former Member — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 08:28:08 GMT

See this sample code.

report ztest.

data: zd type i,

za type i,

zb type i,

zc type i.

data mystring(30).

za = 432.

zb = 313.

zc = 218.

perform string_concatenate using za.

perform string_concatenate using zb.

perform string_concatenate using zc.

write mystring.

form string_concatenate using myint.

data: lvar(16),

delim(1) value '-'.

lvar = myint.

condense lvar.

if mystring is initial.

clear delim.

endif.

concatenate mystring lvar into mystring separated by delim.

condense mystring.

endform. "string_concatenate

Re: concatenation doubt

sreekanthgo — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 09:54:49 GMT

Hi,

Concatenate..Syntax:-

1) CONCATENATE <c1> …<cn> INTO <c> [SEPARATED BY <s>].

2) CONCATENATE STR ‘:’ STR2 INTO STRING.

You can directly assign an integer field to a char field.

So it becomes as a character.

Ex:-

Data: number type i,

numc(5) type c.

number = 211.

numc = number.

So numc is now a character type field and you can concatenate it to some other character field.

Thanks,

Sreekanth

Message was edited by: Sreekanth G

Re: concatenation doubt

Former Member — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 16:51:21 GMT

sreekanth and svetlin thanks so much.