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Long character

Former Member — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 10:38:29 GMT

Hi,

what is the data type to define long character where has more than 500 characters.

Type of char will only output 255 characters.

thanks

Alia

Re: Long character

Former Member — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 10:43:38 GMT

Alia,

If you are working with WAS 6.4 you can use STRING data type.

Regards,

Ravi

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Re: Long character

Former Member — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 10:45:06 GMT

Hi Alia

Depend on what you should to do.

You could use:

DATA STRING(LEN) TYPE C.

and LEN is the length which you need, for exalmple:

DATA STRING(1000) TYPE C.

But remember when you print the string on screen, you can see only 255 chars.

Or you can use the type STRING:

DATA STRING TYPE STRING.

now the length is automatically calculated by system

Max

Message was edited by: max bianchi

Re: Long character

guillaume-hrc — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 10:56:20 GMT

Hi.

I did the test with character and string. It is true that only the 255 first characters of the char is displayed, but the string is complete !

Do not forget to change the line-siez of the report.

Here is the code for the example :

REPORT  ZTEST LINE-SIZE 1023.

DATA : w_char(1001) TYPE c.
DATA : w_string     TYPE string.

DO 1000 TIMES.
  w_char+sy-index = 'A'.
ENDDO.

w_string = w_char.


WRITE : 'Test'.

SKIP.

WRITE : / 'CHAR  ', w_char.
WRITE : / 'STRING', w_string.

Let me know if I'm wrong.

Cheers