Data Types

[Former Member]

Hi All ,

Please can you  resolev my query ..I am using DEC data type like... DEC(23.53) so  can you tel me how much  memory space occupied in bytes .

I try to searched it but I am not able to get it.

Plz help me

Thanks

Suraj

[ramkumar007]

DEC: Counter or amount field with decimal point, sign, and commas separating thousands. A DEC field has a maximum length of 31 places.

actuvally

min                                                                                     max

-2147483648

2147483647

dec(23.53) may be it's its occupied  17

Thanks and regards

Ram

[former_member219762]

Hi,

We can find it in memory analysis in debugger.

Regards,

Sreenivas.

[nishantbansal91]

Hi Sreenivasa Rao Yarru,

Below is the Initial Memory allocated to each variable of type DEC.

data a TYPE DECFLOAT34. 16 bytes

data b TYPE DECFLOAT16.  8 bytes

data c TYPE dec03.               3 bytes

data d TYPE dec07.               4 bytes

data e TYPE dec12.                7  bytes

Thanks.

Nishant Bansal

[Former Member]

Hi Suraj,

The information is available on

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/fc/eb2fd9358411d1829f0000e829fbfe/content.htm

Data Type	Initial field length	Valid field length		Initial value	Meaning
Numeric types
I	4		4	0	Integer (whole number)
F	8		8	0	Floating point number
P	8		1 - 16	0	Packed number

So it can be minimum 8 to maximum 16 bytes depending on Float or Packed Decimal type.

BR.