help size of field

[Former Member]

hallow

i use field dec 7 2 (enstd) and i have a lot of values and the size is too low i wont to buield data elment bigger then that but i dont now how much becouse the program have runtime erorr .

how much bigger i can do this field, and if i can use anoter field (in same type)but <b>bigger</b> then this field .

regards

[Former Member]

Hi

You can use the field with TYPE P decimals 2

or TYPE F (float) if more decimal places are there.

they can handle any amount of values.

Regards,

Anji

[Former Member]

hi anji

what is p ,for the data elment.

regards

[Former Member]

use this dataelement

<b>DEC16_3 </b> Decimal number, 16 digits, three after decimal point

[Former Member]

Hello,

I think u can make use of the domians

DEC20_2	DEC	000020	Dec20 with 2 decimal places
DEC20_3	DEC	000020	Dec20 with 3 decimal places
DEC20_4	DEC	000020	DEC20 with four decimal places

Thanks !!

Vasanth

[Former Member]

Hello,

U can declare a dataelemnt of length 16 like this.

DATA: VAR(16) type p decimals 2.

Regards,

Vasanth

[former_member194669]

A DEC field may have a maximum of 31 places

aRs

[Former Member]

Hi Antonio,

try this:

DATA: <b>I TYPE DEC_16_02_S</b> value '1.20' .

*

DO.

if sy-index > 7. exit. endif.

I = I * I.

WRITE: / I.

ENDDO.

Regards, Dieter