Conversion of data from String to RAW data

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

I am working ona UPgrade to ECC6.0 project.

The issue I am facing is the program has UNICODE type incompatibitlity while oving data from String to internal table with only field of Raw type.

Basically I am looking for a way to convert either a String or character to RAW data format.

Is there any FM. PLease help.

Rgds

Kishore

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

I am working ona UPgrade to ECC6.0 project.

The issue I am facing is the program has UNICODE type incompatibitlity while oving data from String to internal table with only field of Raw type.

Basically I am looking for a way to convert either a String or character to RAW data format.

Is there any FM. PLease help.

Rgds

Kishore

[Former Member]

chk this fm..to convert CHAR to RAW

RS_SCRP_FIELDS_CHAR_TO_RAW

[Former Member]

No This function module could not resolve my issue. Let me know if there is any other way.

Rgds

Kishore

[Former Member]

Try with this FM CONVERT_FROM_CHAR_SORT_RFW

[Former Member]

No this did not work.Let me know of there is any other way.

Rgds

Kishore

[Former Member]

Hi,

Use CALL FUNCTION 'SCMS_STRING_TO_XSTRING'

EXPORTING

text = <string>

IMPORTING

buffer = <xstring>

EXCEPTIONS

failed = 1

OTHERS = 2.

Thanks,

Shailaja Ainala.

[Sandra_Rossi]

An easy solution found by Dirk Boller () is to use:

data l_string type string.
data l_xstring type xstring.
DATA l_buffer TYPE xstring.

l_string = 'ABCD'.

EXPORT my_data = l_string TO DATA BUFFER l_buffer.
IMPORT my_data TO l_xstring FROM DATA BUFFER l_buffer IN CHAR-TO-HEX MODE.
FREE l_buffer.

* l_xstring will contain hex 4100420043004400 if your system is UTF-16LE

[Former Member]

Hi,

I see that the solution you have given is converting the character value to hexadecimal value.

Here the requirement for me is to convert data from of a character or string type to RAW data format.

PLease check and assist.

Rgds

Kishore

[Sandra_Rossi]

Should I do everything?

Add the following lines after the block above. Of course, the raw field (abap X type) must be long enough.

DATA rawfield TYPE x LENGTH 10.
rawfield = l_xstring.

[SuhaSaha]

Hello Sandra,

I generally use the table INDX for this : IMPORT / EXPORT to DATABASE. I think this is the easiest solution

BR,

Suhas