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data conversion questions

Former Member — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:02:50 GMT

Hi Everyone,

I'm confused by the data conversion rule and how to do it in abap, could you help me about some of my questions?

1. How many ways to do data conversion ( like assignment .....)?

2. When using field symbol, we know we can assign reference to field symbol , and at mean time , we can casting type.

Is this kind of casting also a way to do data conversion?

3. In my real case, I have unknown type data to convert to xstring. the type could be any ( I, D, T, STRING......). Is there an easy way to implement that when I get the data reference, I only need to import it to a method and then the method return an xstring to me?

4. question 3 is about data->xstring, and how can I convert xstring back to the original data( should be the same type )?

Thanks and Regards,

Aaron

Re: data conversion questions

Former Member — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:40:30 GMT

Hi Aaron,

concerning question 3./4. you could have a look at Function Group SCMS_CONV, where you find Function Modules like

SCMS_STRING_TO_XSTRING

SCMS_XSTRING_TO_BINARY

Perhaps that helps,

BR,

Sebastian

Re: data conversion questions

Former Member — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:59:57 GMT

Hi,

check this link.

[https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/advancedsearch?query=xstring]

link:[https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/advancedsearch?query=data+conversion]

hope u'll get some idea.

Regards,

Sneha.

Re: data conversion questions

former_member998879 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:10:08 GMT

Hi Aaron,

try this FM: CONVERSION_EXIT_ALPHA_INPUT

is useful for convert different data type, here an example:

call function 'CONVERSION_EXIT_ALPHA_INPUT'

exporting

input = A ( type unknown )

importing

output = B ( type xstring ).

Perhaps that helps,

Regards,

Davide