Changing date during loop

[former_member2492]

Hello,

I am trying to change a date into the desired format 12.12.2012.

LOOP AT DATATAB INTO LS_DATATAB .
 CONCATENATE LS_DATATAB-P0016_EINDT+6(2) LS_DATATAB-P0016_EINDT+4(2) LS_DATATAB-P0016_EINDT(4) INTO DATA(LV_DATE3) SEPARATED BY '.'.
 LS_DATATAB-P0016_EINDT = LV_DATE3.

However now the date is short by 2 chars so its only 12.12.20

Can anybody help me?

Thank You in Advance!

[ArthurParisius]

How did you define LS_DATATAB-P0016_EINDT, you might need to change its type.

[former_member2492]

P0016_EINDT TYPE D

If I declare it char15 for ex or string it dumps and says the field is not the same format

[ArthurParisius]

Maybe also try defining the LV_DATE3 outside the loop at the same type you define EINDT.

[former_member2492]

that's the way I declare it 😉 the two type D,then I change it to char it dumps

[former_member2492]

I need a way to convert date column to char, a function module or smth

[ArthurParisius]

Strange I did a little test with your type of coding and I got no issues. My simple code is here below.

Types: BEGIN OF ty_itab,
        datum type c LENGTH 10,
      end of ty_itab.

data: itab TYPE TABLE OF ty_itab,
      l_itab TYPE ty_itab.

l_itab-datum = sy-datum.
append l_itab TO itab.

loop at itab INTO l_itab.
  CONCATENATE l_itab-datum+6(2) l_itab-datum+4(2) l_itab-datum(4) INTO DATA(LV_DATE2) SEPARATED BY '.'.
  l_itab-datum = lv_date2.
  write: / l_itab-datum.
  modify itab FROM l_itab.
endloop.

[former_member2492]

Nope,Its necessary that the LS_DATATAB-P0016_EINDT needs to be type D and during the loop,I need to change it to append it to another table!

[ArthurParisius]

testing this code gave me the correct results. so the question is, is ls_datatab the type of datatab or of your second table?

Types: BEGIN OF ty_itab,
        datum type d,
      end of ty_itab.

data: itab TYPE TABLE OF ty_itab,
      l_itab TYPE ty_itab.

Types: BEGIN OF ty_itab2,
        datum type c LENGTH 10,
      end of ty_itab2.

data: itab2 TYPE TABLE OF ty_itab2,
      l_itab2 TYPE ty_itab2.

l_itab-datum = sy-datum.
append l_itab TO itab.

loop at itab INTO l_itab.
  CONCATENATE l_itab-datum+6(2) l_itab-datum+4(2) l_itab-datum(4) INTO DATA(LV_DATE2) SEPARATED BY '.'.
  l_itab2-datum = lv_date2.
  APPEND l_itab2 to itab2.
endloop.

[former_member2492]

okay this works only for one field what about for 2 or three other fields that have nothing to do with it

[ArthurParisius]

Shouldn't be an issue as long as you fill the workarea for the second table inside the loop. Try it out.