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transparent table with string data type

lakshminarasimhan_n4 — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 03:42:43 GMT

Dear All,

i have a transparent table and a column as STRING, I am inserting more than 4000 charaters into this column. But when i display the columns it is showing only 1024 caracters. Why so? How can i store 4000 characters in one column and display it back from the transparent table.

Re: transparent table with string data type

FredericGirod — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 06:43:32 GMT

Maybe because you could just display 1024 in your report. How did you display the caracters ?

Re: transparent table with string data type

Sandra_Rossi — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 19:50:34 GMT

ABAP Lists are limited to 1023 characters. See ABAP documentation for more information.

Re: transparent table with string data type

lakshminarasimhan_n4 — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 03:01:33 GMT

Hi,

I display them using se11. does it means the columns store more than 1023, but display only 1023 in the SE11? is there a way to overcome this?

Re: transparent table with string data type

former_member607044 — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 05:13:57 GMT

Strings are elementary data objects of variable length. Strings can be either text strings or byte strings.

See ABAP documentation for more information.

Re: transparent table with string data type

matt — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 08:26:58 GMT

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Re: transparent table with string data type

lakshminarasimhan_n4 — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 14:22:24 GMT

Ok thats fine, but my question is does string more than 1023 characters in a single column of transparent table? also how to display it in SE11.

Re: transparent table with string data type

FredericGirod — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 14:26:32 GMT

SE16 transaction is just a quick help to display data.

If you need to extract data, you will need to create a program to extract it.

Re: transparent table with string data type

jmodaal — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 15:16:31 GMT

Hello,

as mentioned from others, a string can contain more than 1023 characters, but you will never get it being displayed in the standard data viewer (SE11 resp. SE16). If you need to display it, you have to use own ABAP code.

  data: outLen type i value 80,
        recLen type i,
        offset type i.
  reclen = strlen( aString ).
  while ( offset < recLen ).
    if ( offset + outLen > recLen ).
      outLen = recLen - offset.
    endif.
    write:/ aString+offset(outLen).
    offset = offset + outlen.
  endwhile.

Kind regards

Jan