topic Re: Space Fill in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Space Fill

Former Member — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:41:14 GMT

Greetings,

I have a simple table which I am writing to a flat file the table has a single field record structure that is 300 long, my data occupies the beginning of the record. I need to fill each record to 300 long though no matter what, filling the empty space at the end with spaces so that each record is 300 long no matter of the variable content in the beginning.

Ideas?

Re: Space Fill

Former Member — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:50:16 GMT

some thing like this you cna do...

data: text(300).

text+0(300) = 'this is test'.

Re: Space Fill

Former Member — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:51:24 GMT

I think if you move the contents of the table directly, you will still have the entire length with space in the file. Just dont use Concatenate as it will remove the spaces.

Something Like:



Open dataset  ........
 
Loop at itab.
   Transfer itab TO dataset.
Endloop.

Re: Space Fill

Former Member — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:40:08 GMT

I found that in my open dataset routine I was calculating the record length and only transfering filled lengths.

Old Code

open dataset .....

v_strlen = strlen( wa_rev ).

transfer wa_rec to v_serfile length v_strlen.

New Code

open dataset

TRANSFER wa_rec TO v_serfile LENGTH 2500.