I’m affraid there might be a standard function module already available to achieve the same what I’m going to write myself, but I believe it is good to know that the number format can be different when different user settings is used in SAP.
If you forget about this during your development you might start fighting serious problems in the future.
Therefore I’ve written two short code snippets for numbers conversion for INPUT (save to database) and OUTPUT (display to the user) Continue reading
ABAP – Convert numbers on input and output
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