Error in Data Declaration

[aaruljothi]

Hi,

I have declared the following data.

CONSTANTS: con_cret TYPE x VALUE '0D',

con_tab TYPE x VALUE '09'.

when checking the programs for syntax errors i got the following error,

"con_tab" must be a character-type data object (data type C, N, D, T os String).field string).

Pls help me in rectifing this

[Former Member]

Hi,

What are you using <b>con_tab</b> for ?

The declaration seems to be OK.

Svetlin

[aaruljothi]

I am using con_tab in the following code,

LOOP AT itab1 INTO wa_tab.

CONCATENATE wa_tab-field1 wa_tab-field2

... wa_tab-fieldn

INTO itab2 SEPARATED BY con_tab.

CONCATENATE con_ret itab2INTO itab2.

APPEND itab2.

ENDLOOP.

[Former Member]

Hi,

If you are on greater than 4.6C version, you should use

CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES static parameters, intead of hex values.

CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES=>HORIZONTAL_TAB

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Svetlin

Message was edited by: Svetlin Rusev

[Former Member]

HI ARUL,

BINGO!!! HERE IS THE SOLUTION.

First of all the error is not in the declaration part. The error is in this line.

<b>CONCATENATE wa_tab-field1 wa_tab-field2

... wa_tab-fieldn

INTO itab2 SEPARATED BY con_tab.</b>

Remember you can't use string operators like concatenate with TYPE X.

So change the declaration of con_tab as C and then try.

Else, have another variable declared as

DATA: con_tab1 type c.

Move the character value of the X type con_tab to con_tab1.

and then use the statement,

<b>CONCATENATE wa_tab-field1 wa_tab-field2

... wa_tab-fieldn

INTO itab2 SEPARATED BY CON_TAB1.</b>

Cheers,

Sam

[Former Member]

Perhaps the problem is the CONCATENATE... from help:

..., you can only use character-type operands here

[aaruljothi]

hi,

How to reward points. I am new to this forum. Pls bear with me

[athavanraja]

click on the radio buttons on the left side.

Regards

Raja

[athavanraja]

not against your name (post)

click on the radio button in the post which solved your issue.

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Raja

[Former Member]

Hi,

If any reply has helped you solve the problem, you can scroll to those replies and choose the radio buttons on the left (any 1) and award points as to how helpful was the answer. (also remember <b> not to check the option solved on my own</b> in such cases )

Also, please lemme know if my answer helped you and if so reward points for the same.

Cheers,

Sam.

[Former Member]

I think that everyone should aware of this.

https://www.sdn.sap.com/sdn/index.sdn?page=crp_help.htm.

Svetlin

[athavanraja]

i used to direct people to this weblog by mark

/people/mark.finnern/blog/2004/08/10/spread-the-love

Regards

Raja

[Vinod_Chandran]

I am not getting any error for this in 4.7

[Former Member]

I'm working on 4.6C and not obtain your syntax error.

So (for my release) your data declaration is ok.

Which is your release?

[Former Member]

Could you be specific where you used it as it does not give any error for us.

Karthik

[Former Member]

Try giving data type as string instead of 'X'

Regards

Ashish

[Former Member]

hi,

u can remove this error by unchecking the unicode check active in attributes ( goto -> attributes ) .