How to get the length of a field.

Hi all,
I m working on dynamic internal table.There is a need to get the length of a field, filled dynamically.How can we get it.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Swati garg

Swati,
DATA: text(8) TYPE c,
      len TYPE i.
DESCRIBE FIELD text LENGTH len IN CHARACTER MODE.
Field LEN contains the value 8.
================================
For ouput length :
DATA: float TYPE f,
      out TYPE i,
      len TYPE i.
DESCRIBE FIELD float LENGTH len OUTPUT-LENGTH out.
This example results in the field LEN containing the value 8, while the field OUT contains the value 22.
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