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write-write to

Former Member — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:33:57 GMT

Hi Experts,

Can you please send me the difference between the<b> write and write to</b> ...

thanks in advance

Santosh

Re: write-write to

suresh_datti — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:38:21 GMT

write: / w_str --> the values in the variable is displayed on the list

write 'hello' to w_str --> the value gets passed to the string.

Generally you WRITE TO a variable to use the formatting options. Press F1 on WRITE & you will know a lot more.

~Suresh

Re: write-write to

Former Member — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:38:31 GMT

WRITE is to simply write out to the screen where WRITE TO will be used when you want to move a value from one variable to another, yet take advantage of the implicit formatting options that a WRITE command provides. MOVE will not provide you with such features.

Re: write-write to

Former Member — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:39:37 GMT

WRITE will display any text/variable on the list.

ex: write 'Hello'.

WRITE TO will assign the contents of one variable to another variable, and in the output display format.

ex: write abc to xyz.

Hope I am clear

Regards.

Re: write-write to

Former Member — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:42:55 GMT

Hi,

Write -> write the results as a list-output.

Write to -> writes the results into a workarea and can be moved into an internal table. You can use all formatting options in these two stmts.

Regards

Subramanian

Re: write-write to

Clemenss — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 01:09:46 GMT

Suresh,

write to w_str

does not work if str is defined as type STRING.

A great disadvantage!.

Regards,

Clemens

Re: write-write to

amit_khare — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 01:19:23 GMT

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Regards,

Amit

Re: write-write to

Former Member — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 02:42:12 GMT

Write w_str. * This writes the value in w_str to list..

Write w_str to w_str1. * This writes the value in w_str to w_str1 variable.

The WRITE TO statement always checks the settings in the user’s master record. These specify, for example, whether the decimal point appears as a period (.) or a comma (,). You can also use all of the formatting options available with the WRITE statement, apart from UNDER and NO-GAP.

This statement converts the contents of a data object <f1> to type C, and places the string in the variable <f2>. The data type of <f1> must be convertible into a character field; if it is not, a syntax or runtime error occurs.

Write to is mainly used to apply the user master settings to the date and p type variables ( the date format and decimal format )

For example, if you write a date using the WRITE TO, it will apply the user specific formatting.

20061224 -> 12/24/2006

Also if writing type P fields.

1234.00 -> 1,234.00

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