SAP ABAP Data Element DBSAFLDLEN (Field length of a table field)
Hierarchy
SAP_BASIS (Software Component) SAP Basis Component
   BC-I18 (Application Component) Internationalization (I18N)
     SCP (Package) SAP Code Pages
Basic Data
Data Element DBSAFLDLEN
Short Description Field length of a table field  
Data Type
Category of Dictionary Type     Direct Type Entry
Type of Object Referenced     No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type      
Data Type INT4   4-byte integer, integer number with sign 
Length 10    
Decimal Places 0    
Output Length 11    
Value Table      
Further Characteristics
Search Help: Name    
Search Help: Parameters    
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 Length 
Medium 15 Field Length 
Long 20 Field Length 
Heading 12 Field Length 
Documentation

Definition

You can use the select option "Include fields with length" to restrict the search and the update of the database to fields with the specified length. This may speed up the analysis considerably.

This option can be changed until the search has been started.

Use

Dependencies

Example

You want to search for multi byte sequences on your non Unicode database. Therefore you can exclude all tables fields which have a length of 1 character.

History
Last changed by/on SAP  20051219 
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