SAP ABAP Data Element ATRENN (Number of Different Formatting Characters)
Hierarchy
SAP_ABA (Software Component) Cross-Application Component
   CA-GTF-TS (Application Component) Technical Application Support
     BM (Package) MM Cross-Application Objects
Basic Data
Data Element ATRENN
Short Description Number of Different Formatting Characters  
Data Type
Category of Dictionary Type D   Domain
Type of Object Referenced     No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type MATLEN    
Data Type INT2   2-byte integer, only for length field before LCHR or LRAW 
Length 5    
Decimal Places 0    
Output Length 5    
Value Table      
Further Characteristics
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Parameter ID   
Default Component name    
Change document    
No Input History    
Basic direction is set to LTR    
No BIDI Filtering    
Field Label
  Length  Field Label  
Short 10 Form.Chars 
Medium 15 Form. Chars 
Long 20 Formatting Chars 
Heading Form.Ch 
Documentation

Definition

Specifies the number of different editing characters used in the material number template.

Use

Procedure

Examples

Example of how to save field contents in table TMCNV:

You have defined, for example, the following data in transaction OMSL:

Length of the material number        12

Template for the material number        __/___-__/__

The system determines the following field contents on the basis of this data and transfers them to table TMCNV:

LMATNR    Length of material number:                                12
LMASKE    Length of template for conversion:                    12
ATRENN    Number of different editing characters:        2 (= /-)
ATRENNX    Number of occurrences of all editing characters:            3 (= /-/)
LNGEFF    Number of significant characters:                    9 (= 12 - 3)
MASKE    Template:                                            __/___-__/__
TZ        List of all occurrences of editing characters:                /-/

Dependencies

History
Last changed by/on SAP  19980909 
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