topic Re: how to trim date variable in Application Development and Automation Discussions

how to trim date variable

Former Member — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:47:09 GMT

hi,

i have a variable which contains date in the format created_date(YYYYMMDDhhmmssmmmuuun)

but i want the date in (YYYYMMDDhhmmss) format only. how can i extract first 14 characters of the date.

Former Member — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:49:06 GMT

This fm CONVERSION_EXIT_PDATE_INPUT

Former Member — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:01:04 GMT

use the offset ..

get the date as ... date+0(14)

Former Member — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:05:10 GMT

HI,

Try this way

DATA : L_DATE TYPE CHAR14.

l_date = date(14).

Former Member — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:48:51 GMT

Hi Vishal

Check the thread,and see the Anirban answer to the thread.Might be helpful to you.

Regards

Sachin

Former Member — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:00:48 GMT

Hi,

Take a variable of required length and assign date to it.

it itself truncates the char exceeding the length.

ex:

data: w_str like sy-datum,

w_str1(5) type c.

w_str = sy-datum.

w_str1 = w_str.

write:/ w_str1.

Regards,

Mdi.Deeba

Former Member — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:56:41 GMT

thanks srini