topic Re: xstrings in Application Development and Automation Discussions

xstrings

Former Member — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:37:58 GMT

hi experts

wat is the use xstrings . wat is the difference between string and a xstring

regards

vasanth

Re: xstrings

Former Member — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:42:38 GMT

Like String Xstring is also a variable length type.

Only difference is String is Text sequence where as Xstirng is BYTE sequence.

The predefined data types string and xstring describe data objects of variable length (dynamic data objects). While the length of data objects in all other elementary data types is determined for its whole lifetime, the length of text and byte strings varies according to their content (the maximum size of a string is determined by profile parameter ztta/max_memreq_MB, see Maximum size of dynamic data objects).

use the following FM

SCMS_STRING_TO_XSTRING to convert string to xstring

XSTRING is variable-length byte sequence

Re: xstrings

Former Member — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:42:39 GMT

String is a Text string.. means stores data as TEXT

XString is a Byte String.. means stores data internally as group of Bytes...

Re: xstrings

Former Member — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:42:40 GMT

HI,

string->text string

xstring->binary string.

rgds,

bharat.