Doubt regarding no-zero

[former_member910126]

i am a beginner in ABAP so i am using an online ABAP editor to practise.

my question is the zeros are automatically suppresses without using the no-zero.

for eg:

data num1 type i.

num1 = 000040.

write num1.

*now without using no-zero, all the zeros in 00040 are removed in the output.

what i don't understand is that is it because of the editor or any other reason?

a help will be appreciated 🙂

[Jeansy]

Hi,

this is normal. WRITE uses several conversions to format the output to the user (in some cases based on the personal preferences of the user, e.g. the format of a decimal number or date-display).

In your case, you use an integer variable, for this type SAP does not show the leading zeros in this case.

Kind regards
Jens

[abo]

NO-ZERO only works for types C, N or string.

No effect on type i, as in your case.

[raymond_giuseppi]

Abap use some Conversion Rules for Elementary Data Objects to convert elements, in case of WRITE target is a character type field.

Your field is of type Integer, so look at Conversion Rules for Elementary Data Objects, Numeric Source Fields, Source Field Type i, int8, (b, s), Character-Like Target Fields