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From string to tline

Former Member — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:26:13 GMT

Hello people,

Is there a function module to convert a string into the tabel TLINE of the function module SAVE_TEXT?

C14W_STRING_TO_TLINE converts a character into tline, but not a field of the type string.

thanks for any ideas.

maggie

Re: From string to tline

RichHeilman — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:30:43 GMT

Could you move your string into a very big TYPE C field?



report zrich_0001.

data: tline type table of tline with header line.
data: str(1000) type c.

str = 'This is the string that we pass to the function module'.

call function 'C14W_STRING_TO_TLINE'
     exporting
          i_string    = str
     tables
          e_tline_tab = tline.


loop at tline.

  write:/ tline.
endloop.

This works.

Regards,

Rich Heilman

Re: From string to tline

Former Member — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:30:57 GMT

hi Hans,

Declare a variable of type c and pass that string variable in to that char and pass that to the specified function module ..

i.e, data : v_char(100) type c,
                v_str  type string.

    v_char = v_str.

Re: From string to tline

Former Member — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:33:04 GMT

I am not sure, but try FORMAT_TEXTLNES.

Else, you can simply write the logic to split at specific no, of characters and append to a line of the table.

LOOP.

LINE = STRING+M(N).

APPEND LINE.

M = M + N.

--- You just need to take care of the last part of the string so that it doesn't give you a short dump when M goes beyond the length of the string and that is when you exit out of the loop, other wise its a infinite loop.

Regards,

Ravi

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Re: From string to tline

Former Member — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:34:54 GMT

Hi hans,

1. String----> Internal table (of any kind, of any length)

2. use this fm

SCMS_STRING_TO_FTEXT

regards,

amit m.

Re: From string to tline

Former Member — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:38:43 GMT

Hi ,

I don't know a Function module,

but i alway go this way:

ls_line -tdformat = '*'.

ls_line-tdline = gs_data.

i_len = strlen( ls_line-tdline )

while i_len > 1.

append ls_line to lt_lines.

shift gs_data by 132 places.

ls_line -tdformat = '*'.

ls_line-tdline = gs_data.

i_len = strlen( ls_line-tdline )

endwhile.

Werner

Re: From string to tline

Former Member — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:41:09 GMT

Thanks for your help so far, but I want to keep the layout of the text, so just splitting the text at a certain length into a character is not good enough.

eg if my text looks like:

- text 1

- text 2

- text 3

I may not have as result "- text 1 - text 2 - text 3'.

I don't know how to detect a new begin of line when splitting the string into different characterfields in order to supply my tline table.

thanks again!

Re: From string to tline

Former Member — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:09:18 GMT

Function VB_CP_CONVERT_STRING_2_ITF is what you are looking for.

Re: From string to tline

Former Member — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 06:54:56 GMT

IMO Tim's answer (VB_CP_CONVERT_STRING_2_ITF) is the better answer because C14W_STRING_TO_TLINE does not produce lines formatted with * but keeps newlines inside single table lines so you get ## appearing. Also, Tim's function accepts a string directly - double bonus!

Re: From string to tline

former_member552574 — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 07:39:01 GMT

Here's a good one - CONVERT_STREAM_TO_ITF_TEXT

Cheers.

Re: From string to tline

ron_drury2 — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 14:27:04 GMT

This will work but...

It will mask characters like & to <(>&<)>. So if your requirement is to have text without the masks it could be an issue.

Regards,

Ron