Repeat a Char

[Former Member]

Hi everybody. Does anyone know if there's a function to repeat a certain character into a string/character variable, for example repeat "0" 10 times, returns a string "0000000000". Regards.

[Former Member]

Try this out:

Data:w_char(10) type c,
        w_index type i.
DO 10 times.
w_char+w_index(1) = '0'.
add 1 to w_index .
ENDDO.

Result: 0000000000.

Regards,

Gurpreet

[Former Member]

You can try:

CLEAR var(long) WITH char.

[Former Member]

will this help?

data: var type i value 10.
data: str(20).
do var times.
concatenate str '0' into str.
enddo.

Regards,

Sumit Nene.

[Former Member]

Hi,

You can use field symbols.

data: var(10)  type c value '0'.
FIELD-SYMBOLS : <str> type char10.
ASSIGN var to <str>.
do 10 times.
concatenate var <str> INTO var.
enddo.
WRITE var.