topic Re: itab spaces in Application Development and Automation Discussions

itab spaces

Former Member — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:28:37 GMT

Hi experts,

Iam working on smartforms and i have to display 6 field values.One of the fields having long text with 40 charecters.If longtext is not having any value,my data is getting misalligned.

So i want to pass some space into that field to avoid misalignment for the next few fields.


DATA: G_LENG(50) VALUE '                '.

IF WA_DET-LTEXT = SPACE.
   WA_DET-LTEXT = G_LENG.
ENDIF.

Why this code is not working? Means,it is not taking it is as space.Still data is misaligning.

What i need to do?

Thanks

kaki

Re: itab spaces

Former Member — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:34:33 GMT

create template and assing the variables ...

I think this may work?

Re: itab spaces

Former Member — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:36:45 GMT

Hi Kaki

Your code'll do nothing.

You're saying: if no value is in my variable, so my variable is equal no value... it's strange, isn't it?

If you want to be sure of allignement why don't you use a TEMPLATE?

Max

Re: itab spaces

Former Member — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:38:38 GMT

Hi kaki,

1. for such ALIGNMENT PROBLEMS,

2. the best thing is to

use TAB Concept (just like sapscript)

3. I don't know about smartforms,

but some concept must be there.

4. This alignment will also cause problem,

even when the string is there,

but IN CAPITAL letter,

bcos

CAPITAL character takes more space,

as compared to lower case,

and a SPACE takes even less width.

5. However, if the font is COURIER,

then it will have fixed width of ANY CHARACTER,

whether space, lowercase, or capital !!!

regards,

amit m.

Re: itab spaces

Former Member — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:44:06 GMT

Hi Kaki,

It should work, I think you are missing somthing else. I tried with a sample code:


REPORT ztest .

DATA: G_LENG(50) VALUE ' '.

write : 'test', g_leng, 'done'.

Regards,

Anjali