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Issue with READ_TEXT

Former Member — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:14:55 GMT

Hello friends,

I am trying to read material Sales text using the FM Read_TEXT.

it works good for a numberic material but has a problem with the non mumberic material.

CONCATENATE material salesorg channel INTO tdname.

CALL FUNCTION 'READ_TEXT'

EXPORTING

id = '0001'

language = 'E'

name = tdname

object = 'MVKE'

TABLES

lines = i_lines

if the material is 999 , saleas org = 1234, channel = 01

then

tdname = 000000000000000999123401. tha functional Module works good here.

but when material is ABC

the tdname = ABC123401, here the functional module fails because it is excepting a value of

ABC 123401 ( 15 spaces).

Please suggest if there is something wrong with the way text name is created in SAP or do I need to do programming changes.

Thanks,

BOB

Re: Issue with READ_TEXT

Former Member — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:21:20 GMT

CONCATENATE material salesorg channel INTO tdname respecting blanks.

Try adding 'respecting blanks' to your concatenate statement:

or build your tdname by offset length...

like tdname= material.

tdname+17(4) = salesorg, etc.

Re: Issue with READ_TEXT

kesavadas_thekkillath — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:28:38 GMT

Pass the data directly to STXH and STXL tables and check how its stored there.

Re: Issue with READ_TEXT

Former Member — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:36:38 GMT

i tried the respecting blangs option but i get the foloowing error,

".", "IN BYTE MODE", "SEPARATED BY ..." or "IN CHARACTER MODE" expected after "TDNAME".

if nothing works i will use the offset option but i want to try other bfr i use the offset option.

Thanks,

Bob

Re: Issue with READ_TEXT

Subhankar — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:52:00 GMT

Hi,

You can do the same thing using offset.

tdname = material.

CONCATENATE salesorg channel INTO tdname+18.

Then you can use the TDNAME.

Thanks.

Subhankar

Re: Issue with READ_TEXT

Former Member — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:52:26 GMT

Hi,

What you can do is to define a structure for your text name:

TYPES:BEGIN OF typMatText,

matnr type mara-matnr,

vkorg type vbak-vkorg,

vtweg type vbak-vtweg,

END OF typMatText.

then you declare a variable of that type

DATA: lsMatText TYPE typMatText.

then you assign values to it:

lsMatText-matnr = material.

lsMatText-vkorg = salesorg.

lsMatText-vtweg = distChannel.

Finally you copy structure to the TDNAME variable

tdname = lsMatText.

Eric

Re: Issue with READ_TEXT

Former Member — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:53:57 GMT

But the easiest way would be:

CLEAR tdname.

tdname = material.

tdname+18 = salesorg.

tdname+22 = distchannel.

Eric

Edited by: Eric Meunier on Mar 30, 2010 1:54 PM

Re: Issue with READ_TEXT

Former Member — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:50:47 GMT

DATA : f_len TYPE i. " Desides the length of the line.

DESCRIBE FIELD tdname LENGTH f_len IN CHARACTER MODE.

CONCATENATE material salesorg channel INTO tdname respecting blanks.

Hope it will work ..