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Length of a string

Former Member — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:08:59 GMT

Hello,

I am wondering what is the code to obtain the length of a string of characters, is there such a thing like sy-length? Thanks a lot!

Regards,

Anyi

Re: Length of a string

Former Member — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:10:35 GMT

DATA: STRING(20).

DATA: LEN TYPE I.

STRING = 'ABDCE'.

LEN = STRLEN( STRING ).

In this case LEN = 5.

Or you can use DESCRIBE FIELD statament to know the length of variable (in this case 20):

DESCRIBE FIELD STRING LENGTH LEN.

Max

Re: Length of a string

Former Member — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:14:03 GMT

If you just need the <u>defined</u> length(as opposed to occupied length which STRLEN tells you) of a field then you can use the code below.

DESCRIBE FIELD myfield LENGTH field_length.

Re: Length of a string

RichHeilman — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:14:44 GMT

You will need to use the STRLEN keyword.

data: len type i.
data: str type string.

str = 'This is the string that we want to measure'.

len = STRLEN( str ).

write:/  len.

Regards,

Rich Heilman

Re: Length of a string

Former Member — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:18:43 GMT

Hi,

There is no System variable to find the length of the string.

We have to go with Strlen( ) as other have used.

Thanks,

Pramod

Re: Length of a string

Former Member — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:19:27 GMT

H anyi,

The ABAP function STRLEN returns the length of a string up to the last character that is not a space.

[COMPUTE] <n> = STRLEN( <c> ).

STRLEN processes any operand <c> as a character data type, regardless of its real type. There is no type conversion.

As with mathematical functions, the keyword COMPUTE is optional.

DATA: INT TYPE I,

WORD1(20) VALUE '12345'.

WORD2(20).

WORD3(20) VALUE ' 4 '.

INT = STRLEN( WORD1 ). WRITE INT.

INT = STRLEN( WORD2 ). WRITE / INT.

INT = STRLEN( WORD3 ). WRITE / INT.

The results are 5 , 0, and 4 respectively.

reward helpful answers.

regards,

keerthi.

Re: Length of a string

Former Member — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:19:32 GMT

hi anyi,

data: Str type string,

LEN type i.

len = strlen( str ).