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Wildcards?

Former Member — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:00:12 GMT

Hi,

What is wildcard in LSMW?

What is the use of that?

How can we can datas from various files in LSMW?

Former Member — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:05:21 GMT

If your files are stored in several sets of files, you can add a wildcard ('*') to the name of

your file. The possible values for '*' can be specified under "Values for wildcard".

5.8 Use Wildcards in File Names

Example for the usage of wildcards in file names: Let's assume that the legacy data is stored in the

following four files:

· File 1: D:MigPurchase OrdersPO Header 1.txt

· File 2: D:MigPurchase OrdersPO Position 1.txt

· File 3: D:MigPurchase OrdersPO Header 2.txt

· File 4: D:MigPurchase OrdersPO Position 2.txt

Two files each (*1.txt and *2.txt) form a "set", i.e. file 2 contains the position data for the header

records in file 1, file 4 contains the position data for the header records in file 3.

When reading the data, files 1 and 2 shall be processed before files 3 and 4.

This is achieved by means of the following settings:

Former Member — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:09:20 GMT

the Charcters Star(*) and the Question mark(?) are mostly used Wildcard charcaters in SAP or LSMW

they are used to represent a series of files in LSMW.

if you wants to upload data from different files

say:

C:/ Podata1.text, C:/ Podata2.txt, C:/Podata3.txt

you can mention C:/Podata*.txt

Regards

Anji