length of a string

[Former Member]

hi,

A simple question:

How do you find the length of an string defined as characters (CHAR).

I want to check if a certain variable has the maximum length of 5.

thanks

[Former Member]

Hi,

Use STRLEN to calculate length. If helpful pl reward.

Cheers

[Former Member]

Hi Baran

do you mean in declaration or at runtime.

In Runtime you can use

data i type i

data test(20).

I = strlen( test ).

Regards, Dieter

[MichaelTe]

Hello,

l_f_length = strlen( l_f_char ).

Hope this helps,

Michael

[venkata_ramisetti]

HI,

YOu can use STRLEN to get string length.

Check the below example from sap docu.

DATA: I1 TYPE I, I2 TYPE I, I3 TYPE I,

F1 TYPE F, F2 TYPE F,

WORD1(10), WORD2(20),

XSTR TYPE XSTRING,

ITAB TYPE TABLE OF SPFLI.

...

F1 = ( I1 + EXP( F2 ) ) * I2 / SIN( 3 - I3 ).

COMPUTE F1 = SQRT( SQRT( ( I1 + I2 ) * I3 ) + F2 ).

I1 = STRLEN( WORD1 ) + STRLEN( WORD2 ).

I2 = STRLEN( XSTR ).

IF LINES( ITAB ) > 0.

...

ENDIF.

Thanks,

Ramakrishna

[Former Member]

Baran

To get the string length at runtime without the trailing spaces is using STRLEN.

llen = strlen( lval ).

but in case you need the define lenght of the field lval...you can use DESCRIBE command.

DESCRIBE FIELD lval LENGTH llen.

[Former Member]

Hi,

data v_str(10) type c value 'test'.

v_len type i

v_len = strlen(v_str) .

if v_len > 5.

write 'string',v_len.

endif.

Regards

amole