Set variable type P empty

[Former Member]

Hello,

how is it possible to set a variable of type P empty in SAP?

I have tried allready:

variable = ''.

But the output for my variable will be 0, I just need it to show nothing!

Thanks

Anne

[Former Member]

Your question seems pretty basic. Are you asking about how to write it so that no-zero appear??

Rob

[Former Member]

Yes, correct, I just want nothing to appear, no zeros, just blank. How can I do that?

Thanks

Anne

[Former Member]

Just read my first response. The answer lies within.

Rob

[Former Member]

Hi Rob,

so this is your first response:

"Your question seems pretty basic. Are you asking about how to write it so that no-zero appear??"

I don't really see what I can do, so can you please help me out here?

Thanks

Anne

[Former Member]

Press F1 on WRITE and then look at the formatting options.

Rob

[Former Member]

Ok, got it, I guess I am a little slow today..

Thanks!!

[Former Member]

F1 will solve a very high percentage of the questions asked here; searching the forums or using Google will get most of the rest.

Glad to help

Rob

[Former Member]

Hi Rob,

I am sorry, but it doesn't seem to work for me, I used

write MIXEDPACKS-PACKS1 NO-ZERO.

I debugged it but it is still showing zero in debugging as well as in the output.

Thanks

Anne

[Former Member]

How is MIXEDPACKS-PACKS1 declared?

Rob

[Former Member]

*data declaration for #packs

DATA: BEGIN OF MIXEDPACKS,

PACKS1 TYPE P DECIMALS 0,

PACKS2 TYPE P DECIMALS 0,

DATA: END OF MIXEDPACKS.

[Former Member]

DATA: BEGIN OF mixedpacks,
        packs1 TYPE p DECIMALS 0,
        packs2 TYPE p DECIMALS 0.
DATA: END OF mixedpacks.

mixedpacks-packs2 = 5.

WRITE: /001 mixedpacks-packs1    NO-ZERO,
            mixedpacks-packs2    NO-ZERO,
            mixedpacks-packs1    NO-ZERO,
            mixedpacks-packs2    NO-ZERO,
            mixedpacks-packs1    NO-ZERO,
            mixedpacks-packs2    NO-ZERO.

gives:

> 5 5 5

which is I think what you want.

The formatting is not very good, but the 0's show as spaces.

Rob

Edited by: Rob Burbank on Jan 15, 2010 3:51 PM

[Former Member]

Yes, basically that is what I want. But the "NO-ZERO" command doesn't save the value with no zeros back into the variable mixedpacks-packs1, correct? It just gives me the output with no zeros?

Problem is that I need to print the variable on a barcode label with sapscript and I cannot use the "write x no-zero" command there.

I already tried to enter &mixedpacks-packs1(Z)& into my sapscript form where I figured the '(Z)' would eleminate all leading zeros, but it doesn't in this case, maybe because there is only one zero there.

[Former Member]

>

> Problem is that I need to print the variable on a barcode label with sapscript and I cannot use the "write x no-zero" command there.

That's the sort of thing it would be nice to know at the beginning.

You can try conditionally move values to character fields.

Rob

Edited by: Rob Burbank on Jan 15, 2010 4:24 PM

[Former Member]

Hi Rob,

I tried to move it to a character field and the zeros don't show anymore, but now if there is a value in the P field, it shows up as * in the character field.

I am now trying to use FM PACK_CHAR_CONVERSION to convert the value from P to C, but I don't get it to work.

Thanks for your help

Anne