topic Re: String larger than 255 in Application Development and Automation Discussions

String larger than 255

Former Member — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:46:24 GMT

Hi all. I need to fill a variable with more than 255 characters. I've created a custom domain with 500 length both on number of characters and output length. However, when I fill out the field, it only fills 255 chars, no more than that.

Any ideas?

Thanx.

Jesus

Re: String larger than 255

Former Member — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:52:42 GMT

Hi,

You can use Data type <b>LCHR</b>, it can hold up to 32000 chars.

just see the domain<b> J_2ICHRL</b> here LCHR is used.

Regards

vijay

Re: String larger than 255

Former Member — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:56:18 GMT

Hi Jesus,

I think you should use data type STRING instead of CHAR. Because CHAR has a certain limit of 255 even though we declare more than that it won't accept in such cases we have to go for STRING.

Thanks & Regards,

YJR.

Re: String larger than 255

athavanraja — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:58:24 GMT

if you are on WAS6.10 or above you can use data type STRING

Regards

Raja

Re: String larger than 255

Former Member — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 12:58:58 GMT

Hi all. Thanx for your answer, but i've tryed both with J_2ICHRL data element and STRING, and it's still not working.

Thanx

Jesus

Message was edited by: Jesus Bohorquez

Re: String larger than 255

athavanraja — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:04:17 GMT

when you LCHR data type , your table should also have another field of type i where you have to fill the size of the content.

Regards

Raja

Re: String larger than 255

athavanraja — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:09:13 GMT

what do you mean by still not working? not able to create the field - synatx error ,

not able to fill data?

Regards

Raja

Re: String larger than 255

Former Member — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:10:03 GMT

It still only fill up to 255 chars

Re: String larger than 255

athavanraja — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:20:16 GMT

if you are looking at the data in debugging , you will only see 255 characters

how do you fill the field?

Regards

Raja

Re: String larger than 255

Former Member — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:25:22 GMT

I1m looking at the field on debbuging, but I have a routine where I validate the length of the field with STRLEN (field_name) GT 255, and it doesn't work.

Thanx

Jesus

Re: String larger than 255

former_member183804 — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:28:56 GMT

Hello Jesus,

moving more than 255 chars into a String or c field with apporiate size should be no problem at all.



report test.
  data: txt type string, len type i.
  concatenate sy-ULine sy-ULine into txt. len = strlen( txt ).
  write: / len , txt.

So I guess the problem is located in the fill logic. Could your please provide a small code excerpt?

Thanx

Klaus