sorting char field

[former_member188001]

All,

I have to sort an internal table with single field. This field is of type CHAR25. When I sort it, the actual data is lost and I see some wierd data.

Please let me know how do I sort this kind of an internal table.

Thanks,

Salil

[Former Member]

Hi,

paste in your code.

how did you execute sort.

sort itab by field(char25).

or just sort itab?

regards,

jo

[former_member188001]

TYPES : BEGIN OF ty_card,
          ccnum TYPE ccnum,
        END OF ty_card.

        gt_output      TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF ty_card,
       gw_output      TYPE ty_card.


SORT gt_output BY ccnum.
DELETE ADJACENT DUPLICATES FROM gt_output.
DESCRIBE TABLE gt_output LINES g_total.

[former_member194669]

I think field CCNUM is for credit card numbers , please check whether the data in this field is encrypted or not

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[former_member188001]

yes, all the cards are encrypted. and i want to sort them.

[former_member194669]

If it encrypted then it may contain some system characters. so sorting will not work on this. Your option will be either decrypt the and then sort. ( I think in credit card numbers that will not be allowed due to security reasons)

Better talk to business users

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[former_member188001]

Well, we adopted a different approach to take care of the entire credit card stuff.