Dynamic Data: Character Type Declaration

[Former Member]

Hello Experts,

I would like to get your feedback regarding declaration of a character type field with dynamic length?

For example, I would like to declare data like: char(size) type c, where size is dynamic.

How can I do this? Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Jerome

[kesavadas_thekkillath]

Check my reply here

[Former Member]

Hello Keshav,

THanks for your reply. What I actually need is to create a table like:

data: begin of table occurs 0,

field(size here) type c, --> dynamic length field

end of table.

Can you help me in how to implement this?

Regards,

Jerome

[kesavadas_thekkillath]

Please be more clear while asking the question. Now you question is how to create a dynamic internal table. This question is a FAQ and can be easily searched in forums.

Kesav

[Former Member]

Hello,

Normally the dynamic table creation I saw requires reference tables, in this case I need a dynamic length as a field in the internal table.

Regards,

Jerome

[Former Member]

Hi,

DATA r_elemdescr TYPE REF TO cl_abap_elemdescr.

r_elemdescr ?= cl_abap_elemdescr=>describe_by_name( 'DATA_ELEMENT_HERE' ).

DATA r_field TYPE REF TO data.

FIELD-SYMBOLS <field> TYPE ANY.

CREATE DATA r_field TYPE HANDLE r_elemdescr.

ASSIGN r_field->* TO <field>.

<field> = .....

now <field> is your dynamic field value

Regards,

Ravi