SELECT ... Join problems with LIFNR

Hi all,

(Warning! Newbie here, so please bear with me).

We have an extension to our VBAP table where we store a version of the LFA1-LIFNR field. Let's call it ZLIFNR.

If I check the VBAP table, I can see both, the “normal” value of ZLIFNR, say 123456 and the “Unconverted value”: '0000123456'.

On the other side, LFA1 has a record with the proper '123456' / '0000123456' value in LIFNR.

My problem begins when I try to do a:

SELECT ZLIFNR, NAME1

FROM VBAP LEFT JOIN LFA1

ON VBAP~ZLIFNR = LFA1~LIFNR

INTO CORRESPONDING FIELDS OF TABLE gt_mytable.

In this case ZLIFNR gets inserted into GT_MYTABLE  without the leading zeroes AND the join seems to fail.

Any ideas? How could I retain the leading ZEROES when doing the SELECT?

TIA,

Luis.