topic Re: Dateformat in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Dateformat

Former Member — Thu, 12 May 2005 14:33:03 GMT

I have the current date (sy-datum)that needs to be stored in 'mmddyy'not in anyother format in the variable. I do not want to output the date directly(because I know 'mmddyy' format option is available for WRITE statement.

Therefore i want the date stored in this format because I need to concatenate this with other data and then output it. Can anyone help me in this regard.

Thanks

Moved to the right forum.

Message was edited by: Mark Finnern

Re: Dateformat

Former Member — Thu, 12 May 2005 18:06:11 GMT

You should post your question in the ABAP forum you'll get a very quick response there.

Re: Dateformat

Former Member — Fri, 13 May 2005 19:32:03 GMT

Hi Santhosh,

You can actually use the WRITE statement to copy one variable to another whilst applying formatting.

Check out the following code snippet:


DATA: w_char_date(6)   type c,
      w_other_char(40) type c.

WRITE: sy-datum to w_char_date mmddyy.

CONCATENATE 'This is the date: ' w_char_date into w_other_car.

I have given a similiar answer in another thread, check out:

Cheers,

Brad

Re: Dateformat

Former Member — Fri, 13 May 2005 19:43:49 GMT

or you can simply do this

data: v_char_date(6).

concatenate sy-datum+4(2)

sy-datum+6(2)

sy-datum+2(2)

into v_char_date.

Srinivas