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data types

Former Member — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:27:42 GMT

we represent character as c and how do we represent xstring and string?

Re: data types

Former Member — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:34:33 GMT

Hi,

Check these Datatypes.

Type-Permitted- Meaning - ABAP Type

Places m

ACCP 6 Accounting period n(6)

CHAR 1-255 Character string c(m)

CLNT 3 Client c(3)

CUKY 5 Currency key c(5)

CURR 1-17 Currency field p((m+1)/2)

DATS 8 Date d

DEC 1-31, in tables: 1-17 Calculation/amount field p((m+1)/2)

FLTP 16 Floating point number f(8)

INT1 3 1 byte integer b

INT2 5 2 byte integer s

INT4 10 4 byte integer i

LANG 1 Language c(1)

LCHR 256-... Long character string c(m)

LRAW 256-... Long byte string x(m)

NUMC 1-255 Numeric text n(m)

PREC 2 Accuracy s

QUAN 1-17 Quantity p((m+1)/2)

RAW 1-255 Byte sequence x(m)

RAWSTRING 256-... Byte sequence xstring

SSTRING 1-255 Character string string

STRING 256-... Character string string

TIMS 6 Time t

UNIT 2-3 Unit c(m)

For more information on these please check this <a href="http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005vp/helpdata/en/fc/eb2fd9358411d1829f0000e829fbfe/frameset.htm">SAP Link</a>

Regards,

Raghav

Re: data types

Former Member — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:09:12 GMT

Type Length Standard length Description

b 1 Byte 1 byte integer (internal)

c 1 to 65,535 characters 1 character Text field

cursor as i as i Database cursor

d 8 characters Date field

f 8 bytes Floating point number

i 4 bytes 4 byte integer

n 1 to 65,535 characters 1 character Numeric text

p 1 to 16 bytes 8 bytes Packed number

string variable Text string

s 2 bytes 2 byte integer (internal)

t 6 characters Time field

x 1 to 65,535 bytes 1 byte Byte field

xstring variable Byte string

Re: data types

Former Member — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:26:44 GMT

thanks but what i wanted is its(xstring) represention in single letter

Re: data types

Former Member — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:35:41 GMT

Hi,

for xstring it is 'x'.

Regards

vijay

Re: data types

Former Member — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 08:29:21 GMT

Hi Vijay

As per SAP documentation 'X' denotes for Hexa Decimal Characters. Please correct me if my understanding is wrong.

Below is what i got from documentation:

<b>   Type      Description             DL     Initial value 

    C     Character                  1      Space 
    N     Numeric text               1      '00...0' 
    D     Date YYYYMMDD              8      '00000000' 
    T     Time HHMMSS                6      '000000' 
    X     Byte (heXadecimal)         1      X'00' 
    I     Integer                    4      0 
    P     Packed number              8      0 
    F     Floating point number      8      '0.0' 
  STRING  String                  variable  empty string 
XSTRING  Byte sequence (X string) variable  empty X string</b>

Kind Regards

Eswar