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Doubt regarding no-zero

former_member910126 — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 12:35:52 GMT

i am a beginner in ABAP so i am using an online ABAP editor to practise.

my question is the zeros are automatically suppresses without using the no-zero.

for eg:

data num1 type i.

num1 = 000040.

write num1.

*now without using no-zero, all the zeros in 00040 are removed in the output.

what i don't understand is that is it because of the editor or any other reason?

a help will be appreciated 🙂

Re: Doubt regarding no-zero

Jeansy — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 12:45:19 GMT

Hi,

this is normal. WRITE uses several conversions to format the output to the user (in some cases based on the personal preferences of the user, e.g. the format of a decimal number or date-display).

In your case, you use an integer variable, for this type SAP does not show the leading zeros in this case.

Kind regards
Jens

Re: Doubt regarding no-zero

abo — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 12:47:48 GMT

NO-ZERO only works for types C, N or string.

No effect on type i, as in your case.

Re: Doubt regarding no-zero

RaymondGiuseppi — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 15:50:14 GMT

Abap use some Conversion Rules for Elementary Data Objects to convert elements, in case of WRITE target is a character type field.

Your field is of type Integer, so look at Conversion Rules for Elementary Data Objects, Numeric Source Fields, Source Field Type i, int8, (b, s), Character-Like Target Fields