Edit mask

[Former Member]

Hi to all Guru's,

i am not getting how this edit mask get works?

here it display's 5:33 seconds but how this get works?

DATA: time TYPE s_fltime,

seconds TYPE i,

msk TYPE string.

DESCRIBE FIELD time EDIT MASK msk.

write:msk.

seconds = 333.

WRITE seconds USING EDIT MASK msk.

[andreas_mann3]

look conversion exit SDURA

fm <b>CONVERSION_EXIT_SDURA_OUTPUT</b>

A.

[Former Member]

Hi Priya,

It is working based on Conversion Routine SDURA.

Regards,

Satish

[Former Member]

Hi,

What's the output of the line "write:msk".

I can't test your code now, but the mask is transforming the 333 seconds in 5 minutes and 33 seconds (that is equal to 333s).

Probably this mask is in the format MM:SS or HH:MM:SS.

Tell me the output of the line "write:msk" to confirm the above.

Regards,

Charles

[Former Member]

Hi charles,

The output of "write:msk" is

==SDURA

Thanks

Priya

[Former Member]

Hi,

The output of "write:msk" is

==SDURA

This refers to a Converion Routine (i.e Function module) CONVERSION_EXIT_SDURA_OUTPUT.

Execute this FM , and pass input as 333 and exceute, the nthis will return 5:33 i.e it will consider 333 as seconds and convert to minutes.

revert back if any issues,

regards,

Naveen

[Former Member]

Priya, so the mask really hasn't the format that i wrote above.

The mask is a conversion exit. If you don't know what's a conversion exit follow a explain:

A conversion exit is a routine that formats the output. An edit mask that begins with == followed by a ID calls a function module that formats the output. That ID is known as a conversion exit, or conversion routine. The name of the function module will be CONVERSION_EXIT_XXXXX_OUTPUT, where XXXXX is the id that follows ==. In this case CONVERSION_EXIT_SDURA_OUTPUT. The write statement passes the value first to the function module, which changes it in any desired way and then returns the changed value, and that value is written out.

Regards,

Charles

[Former Member]

Thanks Charles,

Thank you very much

[Former Member]

Hi,

you can use edit mask to display the dates or time in your desired format.

example:

write:/ sy_datum using edit mask 'DD/MM/YYYY' or 'DD.MM.YYYY' or 'DD:MM:YYYY'.

you can interchange the DD, MM & YYYY.

in the same way you can print the time also.

write: sy-uzeit using edit mask 'H:MM:SS'.

you can interchange the HH,MM & SS.

reward if useful.

Thanks,

Sreeram.