how to trim date variable

[Former Member]

hi,

i have a variable which contains date in the format created_date(YYYYMMDDhhmmssmmmuuun)

but i want the date in (YYYYMMDDhhmmss) format only. how can i extract first 14 characters of the date.

[Former Member]

This fm CONVERSION_EXIT_PDATE_INPUT

[Former Member]

use the offset ..

get the date as ... date+0(14)

[Former Member]

HI,

Try this way

DATA : L_DATE TYPE CHAR14.

l_date = date(14).

[Former Member]

Hi Vishal

Check the thread,and see the Anirban answer to the thread.Might be helpful to you.

Regards

Sachin

[Former Member]

Hi,

Take a variable of required length and assign date to it.

it itself truncates the char exceeding the length.

ex:

data: w_str like sy-datum,

w_str1(5) type c.

w_str = sy-datum.

w_str1 = w_str.

write:/ w_str1.

Regards,

Mdi.Deeba

[Former Member]

thanks srini