HELP WITH DECRIBE STATEMENT

[Former Member]

Hi all,

In 4.6c the describe STATMENT would assume in BYTE MODE , EVEN THOUGH WE DON'T MENTION EXPLICITILY.

let me know whether my assumption is right or wrong.

In ECC 6.0 , the BYTE and CHARACTER mode differ in deep data types,

what you mean by DIFFER data types.

i HAVE A FIELD FIELD OF CHARACTER TYPE EVEN IF I USE CHARACTER OR BYTE MODE , IT WOULD RETURN ME SAME VALUE.

LET ME KNOW A SMALL EXAMPLE WHERE BOTH WOULD RETURN A DIFFERENT VALUES OR WHERE ON ONLY EITHER CAHRACTER OR BYTE WORKS

Let me know

[RichHeilman]

I would say that IN BYTE MODE would return a different value if you where working with multi-byte language such as Korean or Japanese.

Regards,

RIch Heilman

[Former Member]

Hi Rich and all,

WHAT WOULD THE DESCRIBE STATEMNT CONSIDER BY DEFAULT.

I heard it would consider byte mode as deafult mode as we don't mention any character or byte mode in 4.6c

Let me know

thanks

[Former Member]

By default Byte mode ,and i tested both modes in japanes language as well english language.

byte mode gives diffrent values ,just login other language and test it.

[Former Member]

Hi,

DESCRIBE FIELD <f> LENGTH <l> IN CHARACTER MODE | IN BYTE MODE.

The statement writes the length of the field <f> into the variable <l>.

DATA: text(8) TYPE c, 
      len TYPE i.

DESCRIBE FIELD text LENGTH len IN CHARACTER MODE.

<b>Field LEN contains the value 8.</b>

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DESCRIBE DISTANCE BETWEEN <f1> AND <f2> INTO <f3> [IN BYTE|CHARACTER MODE].

Writes the number of bytes between data objects <f1> and <f 2> into the variable <d>. The length of the first field in memory is always included. In Unicode programs, you must specify either the IN BYTE MODE or IN CHARACTER MODE addition. In non-Unicode programs, the distance is returned in bytes.

look at the link for more details

http://www.sap-img.com/abap/doubt-in-unicode-enabling.htm

Regards

Sudheer