sy-tleng output

[Former Member]

Hi,

Pls have a look at the below code.

<b>data: begin of it occurs 3,

f1 value 'X',

end of it,

n type i.

append: it, it, it.

describe table it lines n.

write: / 'length of a row from sy-tleng:', sy-tleng.</b>

After executing the above piece of code, the output displayed is [length of a row from sy-tleng: 2].

As far as i understand, <b>length of the row in this case should be 1</b> since f1 is a char type variable with default length 1.

<b>Why is the output 2??</b>

[Former Member]

I get the output as 1 only..i am on ECC 5.0

[Former Member]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

I am on Ver 4.7 and i get the output as 2.

Regards,

Vijay

[Former Member]

Hi,

After the statements DESCRIBE TABLE, LOOP AT, and READ TABLE, the system fills SY-TLENG with the row size of the addressed internal table.

Regards

Sudheer

[Former Member]

Hi,

Thank you for the information.

But why is the output displayed as 2 ?

Regards,

Vijay