String in ABAP

[Former Member]

Dear ALL,

Am just learning SAP ABAP. I would like to know the use of String data type in SAP. When and where we use it and how do we maintain it?. Thanks to ALL in anticipation.

[Former Member]

Hi Bhaskar,

data : str type string.

SSTRING 1-255 Character string string

STRING 256-... Character string string

The type SSTRING is available as of release 6.10 and it has a variable length. Its maximum length must be specified and is limited to 255. The advantage of this type compared with CHAR, is that it is assigned to the ABAP type string.

Check the below link for more information:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/fc/eb2fd9358411d1829f0000e829fbfe/content.htm

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Cheers,

Chaitanya.

[Former Member]

Hi Bhaskar,

You use generally use the string data type when you dont know how much wil be the length of your character field. A string may consist of normal as well as Special character.

You can define the string as DATA : string TYPE string.

Regards

Sourabh Verma

[Former Member]

by default data type of string is Char255.

and its used tranfer data to files,

performing the concatinate fun. on chars,

holding the text data, etc...

declaration:

data: lv_str type string.

[abdul_hakim]

Hi,

String data type is used to hold the string of dynamic length.

Declaration:

__________

DATA name1 TYPE string.

Cheers,

Hakim

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