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• CONVERT DATE INTO INVERTED-DATE ABAP Statement • CONVERT INVERTED-DATE INTO DATE ABAP Statement
CONVERT, DATE, INVERTED-DATE Short Reference
ABAP_SYNTAX_OBS CONVERT ${ ${DATE dat1 INTO INVERTED-DATE dat2$} $| ${INVERTED-DATE dat1 INTO DATE dat2$} $}.
What does it do? These variants of the statement CONVERT are not allowed in classes. They convert the digits in a character-like data object in dat1 into their complement on nine (the difference to the number nine) and assign the result to the data object dat2. The data objects dat1 and dat2 must have a flat character-like data type with length 8. The same data object can be specified for dat2 as for dat1.
Latest notes:
These forms of the statement CONVERT are not allowed in classes. They were previously used for sorting by date fields in internal tables and extracts for changing the sort direction. These have now been replaced by the additions ASCENDING and DESCENDING of the statement SORT. If necessary, the complement on nine can be formed using the following TRANSLATE statement: dat2 = dat1. TRANSLATE dat2 USING '09182736455463728190'.
The variant of the statement CONVERT DATE shown here must not be confused with the statements CONVERT DATE ... INTO UTCLONG, and CONVERT DATE ... INTO TIME STAMP for the conversion to time stamps. ABAP_HINT_END
Example ABAP Coding
The following program section sorts the internal table sflight_tab in descending order by the fldate column. ABEXA 00148 The last nine lines can be replaced by a single line: SORT sflight_tab BY fldate DESCENDING. ABAP_EXAMPLE_END
Runtime Exceptions
Non-catchable Exceptions
Reason for error:
Conversion not possible due to invalid field length
