Difference between MOVE and WRITE TO

[Former Member]

What is the difference between MOVE and WRITE TO ?

I have gone thr std help but unable to get it exactly. What is peculiarity about type c ?

The documentation says " In contrast to MOVE, the format of the target field g is the same as when outputting to a list with WRITE. The field type C is always used, regardless of the actual data type. "

Regards,

Nitin

[Former Member]

Hi Nitin,

Have you found the answer to this qustion ?

Regards,

Anand Mandalika.

[Former Member]

Hi Nitin,

I believe the difference is this:

Though both are used to transfer contents of a variable, we should use 'write to' when we need the effect of outputting the variable to list output. (well thats what the documentation says).

U might wonder what the difference is.. suppose we use these methods on a field with conversion exit, it will be clear. Using 'write to', the value is converted using the conversion exit while it is not the case with move.

regards,

Pavan.

[Former Member]

Hi Nitin,

Try this...

REPORT ztestak.

data: test1(10) type c,

test2(10) type c.

START-OF-SELECTION.

move sy-datum to test1.

write sy-datum to test2.

write 😕 'With MOVE :', test1.

write 😕 'With WRITE:', test2.

Output:

With MOVE : 20050726

With WRITE: 07/26/2005

[Former Member]

when you are using 'MOVE' it will try to cast the value according to the target variable.

And also sy-subrc behaves differently

if sy-subrc eq 2 casting done with some adjustments

sy-subrc eq 4

u got some other values u can find them in online documentaion.

Hope This helps

Ismail

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Re: Difference between MOVE and WRITE TO

Posted: Jul 27, 2005 4:24 PM Reply E-mail this post

when you are using 'MOVE' it will try to cast the value according to the target variable.

And also sy-subrc behaves differently for move statement

if sy-subrc eq 2 casting done with some adjustments

sy-subrc eq 4

u got some other values u can find them in online documentaion.

Hope This helps

Ismail

[Former Member]

hi,

While using the MOVE statement the source field & the target field should be of the same type or should be type convertible & compatible.

example ;

data : source type i value 100,

target type i.

move source to target.

In the case of WRIE TO the source field can be of any type but the target field should always be a character type.

example ;

data : source type i value 200,

target(10) type c.

write source to target.