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Data type for Formal Parameter TYPE CLIKE

Amarpreet — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 20:42:52 GMT

Hi I'm hoping a for a really easy way for get this over with .

I have a requirement to convert a very huge report into CSV .

I'm using the Class CL_RSDA_CSV_Convert method ( Slam ) to convert each line into comma seperated format .

the export parameter for this method is of Type CLIKE

if I use a parameter of type C with length 4000* , conversion to CSV happens ,

if i use a STRING for longer conversions the method dumps out with ILLEAGL_SUBSTRING*****.

I would really appreciate it if someone could guide me as to what Type i can use with this class to get a longer output than 4000* characters .

Thanks

Amarpreet.

Re: Data type for Formal Parameter TYPE CLIKE

Former Member — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 02:22:17 GMT

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Re: Data type for Formal Parameter TYPE CLIKE

Amarpreet — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 08:26:39 GMT

It's dumps out with the error : reference to an unassigned field symbol .

Re: Data type for Formal Parameter TYPE CLIKE

Former Member — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 08:34:19 GMT

Hi,

Do u try the type xstring ?

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Re: Data type for Formal Parameter TYPE CLIKE

mani_sekar — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 09:40:37 GMT

Hi,

you can try using CHAR16384

Regards,

Manikandan S

Re: Data type for Formal Parameter TYPE CLIKE

mani_sekar — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 09:48:06 GMT

Also you can try CHAR8000_D and CHAR30000

Re: Data type for Formal Parameter TYPE CLIKE

Amarpreet — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 10:27:17 GMT

this gives me a Type not compatible with the formal parameter error .

Re: Data type for Formal Parameter TYPE CLIKE

Amarpreet — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 10:40:31 GMT

Amazingly this works for upto 30000 characters and if this isn't enough,

i'd say its the business's probelm .

But for the sake of Technical understanding i would still want to understand why string doesn't work .

Thanks .

Re: Data type for Formal Parameter TYPE CLIKE

mani_sekar — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 10:48:23 GMT

Hi,

String is not having any limit in characters and when in runtime it will allocate the space according to value.

but CLIKE is required static space before value assignment

Regards,

Manikandan S

Re: Data type for Formal Parameter TYPE CLIKE

Amarpreet — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 09:41:24 GMT

Sounds reasonalble, i think , thanks .

But i got stuck again .

Turns out AL11 Files have a limit too .

so all the data i have is still not transfereing to the csv file as the AL11 files cannot have that much data in one row .

Any work around for that .

Thanks