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Getting field lengths of an internal table field

former_member810660
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Hi Experts,

i have a small requirement like this below. Regarding dynamically generating an internal table.

 DATA: BEGIN OF itab OCCURS 10, 
       field1 type c,
       field2 like mara-matnr,
      END OF itab,

This is an internal table in my program, i have read these lines into another internal table, now i have to get the field lengths of field1 and field2. that means i should get the field length of field1 as 1 ( as its default length is 1) and length of field2 as 18 ( mara-matnr).

Is there any simple way to code this logic. Please help me in this, points will be awarded for useful answers.

Thansk & Regards,

Poorna.

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former_member386202
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Hi,

do like this.

Data : lv_len type i.

lv_len = strlen(field1).

Regards,

PRashant

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Former Member
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Use

data: lv_len type i.

lv_len = strlen( field1 ).

Lokesh

former_member386202
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Hi,

do like this.

Data : lv_len type i.

lv_len = strlen(field1).

Regards,

PRashant

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Hi Lokesh,

Actually STRLEN can only determine type c or system field lenghts. But my question is actually this. please see the below example:

DATA: BEGIN OF itab OCCURS 10,
       date TYPE sy-datum,
       time TYPE sy-uzeit,
       matnr TYPE mara-matnr,
      END OF itab,
DATA: len TYPE i,
       len1 TYPE i,
       len2 TYPE i.
len = strlen( itab-date ).
WRITE: / len.
len1 = strlen( itab-matnr ).
WRITE: / len1.
len2 = strlen( itab-time ).
WRITE: / len2.

my output is coming like this:


  8
  0
  6

where as the actual lenght of mara-matnr is 18. i need to get the lengths of referenced element. i hope you got my point.

Thanks & Regards,

Poorna.

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hi, try the following code

DATA: FLD(8),

LEN TYPE I.

DESCRIBE FIELD FLD LENGTH LEN IN CHARACTER MODE.

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Hi,

DATA: BEGIN OF itab OCCURS 10,

date TYPE sy-datum,

time TYPE sy-uzeit,

matnr TYPE mara-matnr,

END OF itab.

DATA: len TYPE i,

len1 TYPE i,

len2 TYPE i.

<b>DESCRIBE FIELD itab-time LENGTH LEN</b>.

write len.

former_member810660
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Thanks for your help.