Casting type

[Former Member]

Hi,

Need some pointers with example on how "CASTING TYPE" is used in case of field symbols.

Regards

Saurabh

[Former Member]

HI

GOOD

CHECK THIS OUT

Casting with an Implicit Type Declaration

Provided the field symbol is either fully typed or has one of the generic built-in ABAP types – C, N, P, or X – you can use the following statement:

ASSIGN ... TO <FS> CASTING.

TYPES: BEGIN OF t_date,

year(4) TYPE n,

month(2) TYPE n,

day(2) TYPE n,

END OF t_date.

FIELD-SYMBOLS <fs> TYPE t_date.

ASSIGN sy-datum TO <fs> CASTING.

WRITE / sy-datum.

SKIP.

WRITE: / <fs>-year , / <fs>-month, / <fs>-day.

Casting with an Explicit Type Declaration=>

If the field symbol is neither fully typed nor generically typed, use the following form of the ASSIGN statement:

ASSIGN ... TO <FS> CASTING TYPE <type>|LIKE <obj> [DECIMALS <d>].

EXAMPLE->

TYPES: BEGIN OF t_date,

year(4) TYPE n,

month(2) TYPE n,

day(2) TYPE n,

END OF t_date.

FIELD-SYMBOLS: <fs> TYPE ANY,

<f> TYPE n.

ASSIGN sy-datum TO <fs> CASTING TYPE t_date.

WRITE / sy-datum.

SKIP.

DO.

ASSIGN COMPONENT sy-index OF STRUCTURE <fs> TO <f>.

IF sy-subrc <> 0.

EXIT.

ENDIF.

WRITE / <f>.

ENDDO.

THANKS

MRUTYUN

[Former Member]

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