an error message using DESCRIBE FIELD

[Former Member]

DESCRIBE FIELD MAKT-MATNR LENGTH MNR_LNG .

that line off code gives me an error message:

In Unicode, DESCRIBE LENGTH can only be used with the IN BYTE MODE or IN CHARACTER MODE addition.

can anyone else provide me an explanation and solution..thanks

[Former Member]

Hi

see the below example.

DATA: text TYPE c LENGTH 1,

blen TYPE i,

clen TYPE i,

bytes TYPE i.

DESCRIBE FIELD text LENGTH blen IN BYTE MODE.

i used this code works fine. Try this one.

Rgds,

Kiran

[Former Member]

do like this...

DESCRIBE FIELD MAKT-MATNR LENGTH MNR_LNG in CHARACTER MODE.

Try F1...

If u r not able to find answer Search SDN before u post...

Edited by: Veeranji Reddy on May 20, 2009 1:35 PM

[Sm1tje]

Well, the solution would be to add IN CHARACTER MODE.

F1 help on DESCRIBE.

[Former Member]

i've did exactly what you've told..

same error still occurs..

[SuhaSaha]

Hello,

You want to have the length of the field MAKT-MATNR. Then you can use the function STRLEN.

DATA:
MNR_LNG TYPE I.

MNR_LNG = STRLEN(MAKT-MATNR).

Else as suggested you have to use the addition IN CHARACTER MODE with DESCRIBE FIELD.

Depends on your requirement.

Hope this helps !!

BR,

Suhas

[Former Member]

hi suhas,

does the STRLEN function has the same outcome as DESCRIBE FIELD?

if it does, i can use STRLEN as a replacement instead.

thanks

soo hing

[former_member282823]

Hi,

just try like this, I had check it and it is not throwing any error.

{ DESCRIBE FIELD MAKT-MATNR LENGTH MNR_LNG in byte mode. }

Regards,

Ramesh.

[Former Member]

Try this statement,i think it will works

DESCRIBE FIELD MAKT-MATNR LENGTH MNR_LNG IN BYTE MODE.

[Former Member]

Hi,

When you are using descirbe statement u have to user either charcter mode or binary mode in Unicode.