Character type field

Hi all,
I stored 'A' in a character field which is of lenght 1. How can it be incremented to B, C, D and so on. (Suppose in loop or so).
Regards,
Balakrishna.N

Use Translate
CONSTANTS:
trn(52) VALUE 'ABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKKLLMMNNOOPPQQRRSSTTUUVVWWXXYYZZA'.
DATA:
chrfld VALUE 'A'.
DO 26 TIMES.
WRITE:/ chrfld.
TRANSLATE chrfld USING trn.
WRITE AT 10 chrfld.
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b TYPE n LENGTH 4,    "Length 4 characters
c TYPE d,             "Length 8 characters
d TYPE t,             "Length 6 characters
e TYPE f,             "Length 8 bytes
f TYPE c LENGTH 28,   "Length28 characters
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[ aaa | bbbb | cccccccc | ddd | AAA | eeee | fffffffffffff | gg ]
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