I'm trying to cast a DF34_DEC type to CHAR or DECIMAL as the values appear in scientific notation for initial value (0E -12), but run into compile time errors.
Is this not supported yet? Please let me know if there is an alternate/better way.
strange, I'm not able to view your blog. Seems like it gets blocked by our SAP proxy here. Is it HTTPS or HTTP that you are using? Could you please re-post the link?
I pushed both casting operations through TO_DECIMAL( ) and SUM into a table function(AMDP) and it worked. Just in case someone wants to know a work-around for DECFLOAT types.
Do the type have a conversion routine? If yes, can you use it to convert it to internal format? Afterwards it should be easy to convert the value to a decimal or string (characters), if still needed.
I don't have a conversion routine on the data element, so when I use this as an underlying data type in my CDS View, the initial entries come up in scientific notation i.e. 0E -12.
What is the use case of casting a decfloat34 to characters? But do you really mean ASSIGN df34 TO <c> CASTING? Or are you talking about explicit type conversion df34 to characters?
like I have mentioned, the initial values for DF34_DEC come up as 0E -12 which is not user friendly on the UI. I have even tried to cast using the function FLTP_TO_DEC( ) to cast this to DECIMAL, but that doesn't seem to work either.
By casting I mean, using the keyword CAST in ABAP CDS or the CDS built-in function FLTP_TO_DEC( ).
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