Write I type with length

[Former Member]

DATA: NUMBER TYPE I VALUE '1234567',

TEXT(10) VALUE 'ABCDEFGHIJ'.

break-point.

WRITE: (5) NUMBER,

(6) TEXT.

what is result?

and why?

Thanks for all you kindly reply!

[Former Member]

The output is

*4567 ABCDEF

The reason is

First you are displaying Integer. Fir integers, values are printed right justified and the field length is 11. As we are displaying only 5 characters, it display *4567, * for truncated value.

For character it displays left justified, and as 6 character length is specified, it displays ABCDEF.

See this for more detail -

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/9f/db9e2335c111d1829f0000e829fbfe/frameset.htm

[Former Member]

Thank you, sir!