How to remove leading zeros

[Former Member]

I have a field 'Bill No.' of Character(10) type in my dialog program. Once I input and save value e.g. '1' in this it gets saved as 1 but in the internal table it gets stored as '0000000001'. Pls let me know how to remove these leading zeros: perhaps I'll have to use LTRIM but I am not sure.

deepak.

[Former Member]

Hi

Use the fm CONVERSION_EXIT_ALPHA_OUTPUT.

DATA: P(10) VALUE '0000000001'.

CALL FUNCTION 'CONVERSION_EXIT_ALPHA_OUTPUT'
     EXPORTING
          INPUT  = P
     IMPORTING
          OUTPUT = P.

WRITE P.

Max

[Former Member]

in internal table for perticular field change data type num to char . tah n it will work.

[Former Member]

Hi!,

Usually we remove the zeros by the following ;

shift <field_name> left deleting leading zeros.

regards

Purnima.