when I raed the value from screen the date comes as say 04.05.2007.
but when i put the the same value it truncates to 8 since the work area field is of type dats and only 8 characters are accepted .
what should be the solution
should i take the work area field of length as 10 and declare as char,but i need to modify custom table with workarea values , in the cutsom table again the field is of tpe dats,
suggest something