topic Re: New field format in Application Development and Automation Discussions

New field format

Former Member — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:41:24 GMT

Hi all,

I'm getting this requirement, not sure if it makes any sense or not, but I really appreciate if you can give me an idea about this.

For example I read the cluster and get this amount $99999.99

They want me to show it in the output file under this format

000009999999000 (15 bytes in length)

So my question is is there any function module to do this? or any suggestion? Thanks and points will be surely rewarded!

Re: New field format

former_member156446 — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:44:01 GMT

Hi Ben

Use the function module CONVERSION_EXIT_ALPHA_INPUT to convert 256 to 0000000256. You can put this FM in a subroutine

Re: New field format

Former Member — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:48:34 GMT

Hello Ben Boman,

No FM's available. You need to do make use of string manupulation functions.

Do the following logic :

1) seperate the value into two field value ( one before decimal poing and another after decimal value).

2) then count the string value and add zeros according to your requirement and concatenate both values.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,

Greetson

Re: New field format

Former Member — Mon, 19 May 2008 22:12:21 GMT

Thanks for your prompt responses,

@jack, It's very useful, I will check with my client if they want that instead of the original requirement.

@greetson, thanks for your solution, I'm thinking about this case your solution may not work, if I have an amount of $500, so, if I put it in the variable that's 15 byte long, something like this 000000000500000 how do I (or they) know that it's 500 or 50000 dollars.

And by the way, it really depends on the amount so the numbers of begin and ending zero are not fix.

Re: New field format

Former Member — Mon, 19 May 2008 23:06:45 GMT

Hi Jack, I tried the module function named 'conversion_exit_alpha_input'

But it turned out 0000000000000009 instead of 0000000000009999 as I thought

Here's my test code on that FM, if there's something wrong please let me know, thanks!

REPORT Ztest.

data: numtest type n.

data: test(15) TYPE n.

numtest = 9999.

CALL FUNCTION 'CONVERSION_EXIT_ALPHA_INPUT'

EXPORTING

INPUT = numtest

IMPORTING

OUTPUT = test.

write test.

Re: New field format

Former Member — Mon, 19 May 2008 23:17:00 GMT

Hi Ben,

The code should be in the following way

data: numtest(15) type n.

data: test(15) TYPE n.

numtest = 9999.

CALL FUNCTION 'CONVERSION_EXIT_ALPHA_INPUT'

EXPORTING

INPUT = numtest

IMPORTING

OUTPUT = test.

write test.

The output is coming perfectly as 000000000009999.

Regards

Abhishek

Re: New field format

Former Member — Mon, 19 May 2008 23:30:03 GMT

Great! thanks Abhishek, I will confirm with them if they want this format, in the mean time still looking for a solution for this format. Thanks again!

Re: New field format

Former Member — Tue, 20 May 2008 03:27:05 GMT

Check if below example satisfies original requirement:

DATA: p_dec(8) TYPE p DECIMALS 5 VALUE '99999.99',
      p_text(15) TYPE c,
      p_num(15) TYPE n.

p_text = p_dec.
p_num = p_text.
WRITE:/ p_dec,
      / p_num.

Re: New field format

Former Member — Tue, 20 May 2008 22:20:39 GMT

Dear Eswar, It works, I marked this as right answer You're amazing, thanks!

Edited by: Ben Boman on May 21, 2008 12:33 AM