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moving transparent table to a string

Former Member — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:27:34 GMT

Hello there, ( I am new to abap and learning day by day 🐵

we are going through the process of changing to unicode standard. I am getting following error message

"charstring" and "T510Q" are not mutually convertible in a Unicode ....

while trying to do the following: Move t510q to charstring.

"charstring" is a field of 40 and is more than sufficient to get all the data (including c, i, p types etc) from t510q.

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advanced.

Note: I tried to follow the following example...but abap can not find the class...

class CL_ABAP_CONTAINER_UTILITIES definition load.

call method CL_ABAP_CONTAINER_UTILITIES =>FILL_CONTAINER_C

exporting IM_VALUE = STRUC

importing EX_CONTAINER = CONTAINER

exceptions ILLEGAL_PARAMETER_TYPE = 1

others = 2.

Re: moving transparent table to a string

Former Member — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:48:09 GMT

Command "Move t510q to charstring." will give an error in Unicode system.

Check these thread for more details -

Message was edited by:

Ashish Gundawar

Re: moving transparent table to a string

Former Member — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:55:24 GMT

Hi,

thanks for your input. I will look into it now and let you know if it worked or not for me.

Thanks again!

Re: moving transparent table to a string

Clemenss — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:08:51 GMT

Hi J Are,

maybe not yet in your release - and I don't know what you are doing. You can not move t510q to charstring because T510 is a structure containing not only pure character fields, but also a packed decimal curency field amount BETRG.

Because characters are represented as double-bytes under unicode and numeric values remain as they are, a simple move is not possible.

Regards,

Clemens

P.S:

Here is the method's source code, take it into your program:


method fill_container_c .

  class cl_abap_char_utilities definition load.

  data: l_type_value     type c,
        l_type_container type c,
        l_len_value      type i,
        l_len_container  type i,
        l_ref            type ref to data.

  field-symbols: <xvalue>     type x,
                 <xcontainer> type x,
                 <ccontainer> type c.

  describe field im_value type l_type_value.
  case l_type_value.
    when 'u'.
      describe field ex_container type l_type_container.
      case l_type_container.
        when 'C'.
          assign im_value     to <xvalue>     casting.
          assign ex_container to <xcontainer> casting.
          <xcontainer> = <xvalue>.
        when 'g'.
          describe field im_value length l_len_value in byte mode.
          l_len_container =
            l_len_value div cl_abap_char_utilities=>charsize +
            sign( l_len_value mod cl_abap_char_utilities=>charsize ).
          create data l_ref type c length l_len_container.
          assign l_ref->* to <xcontainer> casting.
          assign im_value     to <xvalue>     casting.
          <xcontainer> = <xvalue>.
          assign l_ref->* to <ccontainer>.
          concatenate space space into ex_container separated by <ccontainer>.
        when others.
          message x002(sy).
      endcase.
    when 'h' or 'v' or 'r' or 'l'. " table, deep struc, object
      " referenc, data reference
      raise illegal_parameter_type.
    when others.   " single field
      ex_container = im_value.
  endcase.



endmethod.                    "FILL_CONTAINER_C

Re: moving transparent table to a string

Former Member — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:26:19 GMT

Hi,

Thanks to all. The code seems to be working now. I used the field symbols to solve the issue.

thanks very much for the guidance.