Type string not allowed in PARAMETERS?

[Former Member]

Hi,

I'm trying to define a parameter type string to get a file path to upload a file and I receive the following error.

PARAMETERS: var1 TYPE string.

The deep data type "STRING" is not allowed.

But then I use the same type to a DATA statement and I can use it with no problem, for example:

DATA var1 TYPE string.

I've got a code created by me the last year where I declare a TYPE string parameter and that code worked perfectly... The SAP version is 6.4...

[Former Member]

Hi Marshall,

The older releases doesn't support the datatype string for parameters as the newer releases wil take it.

If you still want to achieve that you can use the datatype char<x> for that and x being the number of characters.

Cheers,

Simha.

[Former Member]

You can use char with the required length

[Former Member]

Ok ok, I don't understand why isn't working because the release is new (6.4) but doesn't matter... I will use the data type string to pass the string to char255 parameter as you told me and no more complications

Edited by: Marshal Oliveras on Nov 18, 2008 10:43 AM

[Simha_]

Hi Marshall,

The older releases doesn't support the datatype string for parameters as the newer releases wil take it.

If you still want to achieve that you can use the datatype char<x> for that and x being the number of characters.

Cheers,

Simha.

[Former Member]

i think ur sap version is 4.6 . In 6.0 this will work .

parameter : pa_file like rlgrap-filename.

data : gv_file type string .

gv_file = pa_file .