I wish I knew these before.... but its NEVER too late!
This is going to be an ever expanding post. I come across a lot of technical tips to do something more efficiently , compared to what I was doing before to achieve the same results. This post is a documentation of these technical tid bits, primarily for my own documentation & reference.
SAP ABAP Programming Language
Deleting Leading 0s from a variable
While SAP stores data in transparent tables with leading 0s (eg: Purchase Order is 10 chars long, but most customers use a number range which puts the PO in 7-8 char length), when it comes to presentation, esp in HTML 5 web applications, these leading 0s become a sore spot.
Before:
Using function module : CONVERSION_EXIT_ALPHA_OUTPUT
After:
SHIFT LEFT DELETING LEADING '0'.
