SAP ABAP Training - Character Strings - Declaring C and N fields
SAP ABAP Training - Character Strings - Declaring C and N fields
SAP Training - BEGINNERS GUIDE TO LEARNING SAP ABAP - Declaring C and N Fields
This video will discuss character strings.
When creating programs, fields defined as character strings are almost always used. In SAP, there are two elementary data types used for character strings. These are data type C, and data type N.
Data type C.
Data type C variables are used for holding alphanumeric characters, with a minimum of 1 character and a maximum of 65,535 characters. By default, these are aligned to the left.
Begin this chapter by creating a new program. From the ABAP Editor's initial screen, create a new program, named "Z_Character_Strings". Title this "Character Strings Examples", set the Type to 'Executable program', the Status to 'Test program', the Application to 'Basis', and Save.
Create a new DATA field, name this "mychar" and, without any spaces following this, give a number for the length of the field in parentheses. Then, include a space and define the TYPE as c .....
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