using edit mask

[Former Member]

Hi All ,

         Firstly my question is can we use  USING EDIT MASK statement only in write statement . My requirement is i need to display 9291651500 as (92)9165-1500 . i achieved this by following code

DATA  w_celular(20) TYPE c VALUE '9291651500'.

WRITE w_celular USING EDIT MASK '(__)____-____'.

Issue is i dont want to display the number . Please help if  there is any other way to do this .

regards

Kishore

[matt]

You don't want to display the number? Do you mean that you want to get the formatted value into another variable? Perhaps WRITE... INTO is what you need.

[Former Member]

Hi Matthew ,

                 I dont want to print the value as i am moving it to another variable here is the code

move w_celular to TI_DADOS-celular .

Regards,

Kishore

[matt]

And does WRITE INTO not do the job?

[Former Member]

USE

CONCATENATE '(' w_celular+0(2) ')' w_celular+2(4) '-' w_celular+6(4) INTO TI_DADOS-celular.

[Former Member]

Yeahh that works , thank you Matthew .

[matt]

Which would have been easily discovered by reading the documentation on the keyword WRITE...

[Former Member]

Yes i could have done it before posting the question  but I did not want to display any variable  so was not intrested in the keyword WRITE  as i didnt know write to earlier .

[matt]

It can be tricky when you don't know what you don't know!

[Former Member]

Hi,

There is no need to give number.U can give character fields.

DATA  w_celular(20) TYPE c VALUE 'abcdefghij'.

WRITE w_celular USING EDIT MASK '(__)____-____'.

will give o/p (ab)cdef-ghij

[Former Member]

Can we do it without using write statement . I need to move the output to other variable without displaying the result . 

[Former Member]

Hi Sriramula,

As Sai krishna suggested u can use the concatenate syntax if  value fixed and expected value is also fixed.

Declare one variable with same declaration value and  move concatenate variable into another one

[kabil_g]

.....Do you want to display as a character.......or what