Determine Length of Field in Select Statement

Hi Experts!
My officemate has this little problem regarding selection of data based on a certain condition...
Here is the situation:
For Example...
In table KNA1....
KUNNR       NAME1         Length of Data in Name1
000001        AA                2
000002        AB                2
000003        ABCD           4
000004        ABCDE         5
She only wants to get the records that has the length of 2 in KNA1-NAME1,
i.e., 'AA' and 'AB' without having to put it in the internal table then make a loop and update the table using the strlen() condition....
Experts, is this possible? Knowing the length of the data in the select statement? She wants this alternative because it is faster rather than having to loop in internal tables and check if this data has the length of 2 or 3 or 4 and so on....
Can you please help me out with this one? Thanks in advance!
<b></b>

Hi
If the lenghtn is 6 characters and if you want to fetch only first 2 characters.
you can use offset
fetch data from internal table and take variable
v_var1 = itab-name1+0(2).
you get only first 2 characters....
if you want last 2 characters itab-name1+4(2).
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"the posnr is not mentioned in the order by clause, hence posnr was
"still in ascending order.
select * from vbap into table it_vbap
where posnr in s_posnr and vbeln in s_vbeln
order by vbeln descending.
write : 'done!'.
refresh it_vbap.
"Here the orders were selected in Descending order of Sales order.
select * from vbak into table it_vbak where vbeln in s_vbeln
order by vbeln descending.
" The entries were selected in the ascending order of the key VBELN and
" POSNR, so it seems that for all entries does not affect the selection of records.
select * from vbap into table it_vbap
for all entries in it_vbak
where vbeln = it_vbak-vbeln
and   posnr in s_posnr.
Of course if you change the order of the primary key (in the transparent table, not in the where clause), the entries will be sorted as per the changed key.
But we seldom change the the sequence of the primary key. In most cases we normally add a new field and make it a key field in addition to the existing key fields.
I hope this helps you.
There might be many more cases and examples than given above, which you can try and reply on this post. Lets see what we come up with.
regards,
Advait

How do I validate one field's length based on another field's selection?

I am creating a form for our offices where I need to check one field for length of a serial number based on the answer to a previous field's selection. Depending on the product selection, the serial number has two different lengths. Both fields are marked as required, but I want to make sure that we receive the full serial number for our product. Previous forms were done on paper and instructions were for the last 4 digits only which now we want the full serial number. One product has a 12 digit number and the other is 6.
I'm guessing that I need a validation script in the serial number field, but I am not a JavaScript coder and haven't found the right thing when searching. Any help would be great!
Thanks!

Never trust your users to follow what you expect them to do... That often leads to mistakes and problems later on.
I would reset the s/n field when a selection is made in the drop-down. To do so set the drop-down field to commit the selected value immediately and add code as its custom validation script:
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