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adjusting space

Former Member — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 14:42:25 GMT

hi folks,

I have to adjust the space while cocatenation of characters

If I have the data '7/08 TU MET ENT' I need the data to be spaced as

'7/08 TU

MET ENT'

Few days back one of the developers helped me with this code

constants: c_crt type x value '0D'.

concatenate zdate1 wa-vavartyp c_crt zbunit zposcc

into wa1-zdateproductcode separated by space.

but it throws an error saying that c_crt is not a char type

one of the other developer also gave me

concatenate ztotalwidth cl_abap_char_utilities=>cr_lf zzquantity into wabb1-zadsize separated by spac

this is working but I am getting '##' sign in the form I am displaying.

Can anybody help me to adjust the code here?

thanks

Santhosh

Re: adjusting space

RichHeilman — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 14:50:35 GMT

Are you saying that you need that one string to be in two lines. If so, is having two strings out of the question.

Data: a(50) type c,
      b(50) type c.

concatenate zdate1 wa-vavartyp into a.
concatenate zbunit zposcc into b.

Regards,

Rich Heilman

Re: adjusting space

Former Member — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 14:55:43 GMT

No , I need to have that in one string only but dbecause I will reading the data into a single variable and displaying it in two lines in the form.

Santhosh

Re: adjusting space

Former Member — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 15:30:51 GMT

<<this is working but I am getting '##' sign in the form I am displaying.>>

What do you mean by form here ..

if you are displaying the results in ABAP then line - break character will be displayed as # but if you are downloading it into a file on PC or application server - and then if you will open the file with notepad, it should display the lines properly.

Thanks,

Ram

Re: adjusting space

Former Member — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:18:03 GMT

HI Ram,

the data is getting displayed N THE SMARTFORM in this format

'7/08 TU ##

MET ENT'

I AM READING THIS ENTIRE DATA INTO A FIELD OF AN INTERNAL TABLE READING THAT INTO THE SMARTFORM.

SANTHOSH

Re: adjusting space

Former Member — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:32:30 GMT

It will not work the way you want while displaying it in smartforms or ABAP Reports.

This can be used while downloading the data to text files...

I suggest, you break that variable into separate lines at line break character.

You might try ..something like

SPLIT var into itab at <line_break_char> ..

write this itab lines one by one.

cheers,

Ram

Re: adjusting space

RichHeilman — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 17:31:01 GMT

I agree with Ram, as I stated earlier, If you want them to print on different lines, they are going to have to be two separate fields.

Regards,

Rich Heilman