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using edit mask

Former Member — Wed, 01 May 2013 07:08:37 GMT

Hi All ,

Firstly my question is can we use USING EDIT MASK statement only in write statement . My requirement is i need to display 9291651500 as (92)9165-1500 . i achieved this by following code

DATA w_celular(20) TYPE c VALUE '9291651500'.

WRITE w_celular USING EDIT MASK '(__)____-____'.

Issue is i dont want to display the number . Please help if there is any other way to do this .

regards

Kishore

Re: using edit mask

matt — Wed, 01 May 2013 07:16:34 GMT

You don't want to display the number? Do you mean that you want to get the formatted value into another variable? Perhaps WRITE... INTO is what you need.

Re: using edit mask

Former Member — Wed, 01 May 2013 07:28:06 GMT

Hi,

There is no need to give number.U can give character fields.

DATA w_celular(20) TYPE c VALUE 'abcdefghij'.

WRITE w_celular USING EDIT MASK '(__)____-____'.

will give o/p (ab)cdef-ghij

Re: using edit mask

Former Member — Wed, 01 May 2013 07:54:53 GMT

Hi Matthew ,

I dont want to print the value as i am moving it to another variable here is the code

move w_celular to TI_DADOS-celular .

Regards,

Kishore

Re: using edit mask

matt — Wed, 01 May 2013 07:55:34 GMT

And does WRITE INTO not do the job?

Re: using edit mask

Former Member — Wed, 01 May 2013 08:04:41 GMT

Can we do it without using write statement . I need to move the output to other variable without displaying the result .

Re: using edit mask

Former Member — Wed, 01 May 2013 08:05:04 GMT

USE

CONCATENATE '(' w_celular+0(2) ')' w_celular+2(4) '-' w_celular+6(4) INTO TI_DADOS-celular.

Re: using edit mask

Former Member — Wed, 01 May 2013 08:11:20 GMT

Yeahh that works , thank you Matthew .

Re: using edit mask

matt — Wed, 01 May 2013 08:25:11 GMT

Which would have been easily discovered by reading the documentation on the keyword WRITE...

Re: using edit mask

Former Member — Wed, 01 May 2013 09:19:06 GMT

Hi Sriramula,

As Sai krishna suggested u can use the concatenate syntax if value fixed and expected value is also fixed.

Declare one variable with same declaration value and move concatenate variable into another one

Re: using edit mask

kabil_g — Wed, 01 May 2013 09:27:31 GMT

.....Do you want to display as a character.......or what

Re: using edit mask

Former Member — Wed, 01 May 2013 09:59:27 GMT

Yes i could have done it before posting the question but I did not want to display any variable so was not intrested in the keyword WRITE as i didnt know write to earlier .

Re: using edit mask

matt — Wed, 01 May 2013 13:11:47 GMT

It can be tricky when you don't know what you don't know!