topic Re: IMPORT/EXPORT FROM DATA BUFFER in Application Development and Automation Discussions

IMPORT/EXPORT FROM DATA BUFFER

Former Member — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:12:15 GMT

Hi,

I have some code like this:

DATA: b type xstring.

DATA: a type xstirng.

EXPORT '1234' TO DATA BUFFER b.

IMPORT a FROM DATA BUFFER b.

for some reason a does not get set to the value that I assigned to b.

However, this code works:

DATA: b type xstring.

DATA: a type xstirng.

EXPORT some_internal_table TO DATA BUFFER b.

IMPORT a FROM DATA BUFFER b.

Does anybody know why internal tables work but other data types do not?

Thank you.

Re: IMPORT/EXPORT FROM DATA BUFFER

Former Member — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:19:12 GMT

perhaps its the lack of a header in the data, where your internal table may have one.

Warren

Re: IMPORT/EXPORT FROM DATA BUFFER

sridhar_k1 — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:28:56 GMT

EXPORT '1234' TO DATA BUFFER b, not working because, you did not assign a variable name to '1234' to be stored as in data buffer B.

Change the code to:

DATA: b type xstring.

DATA: a(4) type c.

EXPORT a = '1234' TO DATA BUFFER b.

IMPORT a FROM DATA BUFFER b.

It's working in the second case because, some_internal_table is the name of the variable in databuffer B and you are importing into the same variable in IMPORT

Regards

Sridhar