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July 11, 2013 Less than a 1 minute read

Simple routine to convert exponential values to float

Dear all,

I was trying to get values in an ALV grid recently and I noticed that the values are displayed as exponential values which didn’t satisfy the client very much. So after a little research I found this function module that converted the exponential format to float format.

This form takes the exponential value in V_FLOAT variable converts it to the float value in V_CHAR P10_4 variable

FORM CONVERT CHANGING V_FLOAT V_CHAR P10_4.

IF V_FLOAT IS NOT INITIAL.

CALL FUNCTION ‘CEVA_CONVERT_FLOAT_TO_CHAR’

EXPORTING

FLOAT_IMP = V_FLOAT

FORMAT_IMP = P10_4

ROUND_IMP = ‘ ‘

IMPORTING

CHAR_EXP = V_CHAR.

ENDIF.

ENDFORM.

DATA: V_FLOAT TYPE F , V_CHAR(25), P10_41(10) TYPE P DECIMALS 3. “CONVERSION OF STRING TO FLOAT STRUCTURE.

V_FLOAT = VALUE_BEFORE_CONVERSION.

PERFORM CONVERT CHANGING V_FLOAT V_CHAR P10_41.

VALUE_AFTER_CONVERSION = V_CHAR.

Hope this simple routine is useful.

If you have any doubts, please don’t hesitate to ask.

Regards,

Mohammed Mohsen

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Martin Coetzee

July 30, 2018 at 4:23 am

On another thread I saw this which worked for me:

https://archive.sap.com/discussions/thread/3603763

By a previous member called Armin:

Hi,

the SET_EDIT_MASK method was very helpfull.

It took me some time to find out that lr_column->set_edit_mask( '==DEC2' ) means use function CONVERSATION_EXIT_DEC2_OUTPUT for converting the numbers.

Best regards

Armin

I found this really useful. I implemented it easily and it worked.

Before I applied the code:

I put in this code:

* Set the column optimisation, texts, visibility etc
  gr_columns = lt_alv_table->get_columns( ) .
* Optimize column width
  gr_columns->set_optimize( abap_true ).
* Redo column headings
  gr_column ?= gr_columns->get_column( 'MTBF' ).
  gr_column->set_edit_mask( '==DEC2' ) .

And I ended with this:

Worked really well.

Simple routine to convert exponential values to float

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