Displaying '001' on the selection screen using numc type

[Former Member]

Hi All,

I'm having a report program and have a parameter on the selection screen. The parameter is of NUMC type and is having 3 characters. I want to initialize this field with the value '001'. But when the selection screen appears the displayed value is 1 and not 001. The zeroes get truncated. Is there any way by which i can use numc itself and display 001. if i use character type, i'll have to do the validation for non-numeric characters. Can someone help me out?

Thanks,

Sandeep

[Former Member]

Hi Sandeep,

This is not possible with numeric fields in selection screen beacuse of automatic conversions on screen output . You have to define a char field on screen, put validations for numeric in AT SELECTION-SCREEN and later pass it to a numeric field in program and use it .

Cheers

[Former Member]

Thanks Sanjay. Also could you please tell me how to find out the length of a character string?

Sandeep

[Vinod_Chandran]

You can use STRLEN for this.

[andreas_mann3]

Hi,

data z type i.

z = strlen( field1 ).

Andreas

[Vinod_Chandran]

Hi Sandeep,

Even if you see only '1' in the selection screen, inside the program the value will be '001'.

Cheers

Vinod