topic Re: Trailing spaces requried in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Trailing spaces requried

Former Member — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:40:52 GMT


Data:
str1(10) type c,
str2(10) type c,
str3(30) type c.

str1 = 'street1   '.
str2 = 'street2   '.
CONCATENATE str1 str2 INTO str3 SEPARATED BY ';'.

Write / str3

the output obviously will become:

street1;street2.

but what i wanted is to maintain the existing trailings

so it should be:

street1<blank><blank><blank>;street2<blank><blank><blank>.

It seems the forum also does not allow trailing spaces.

What should I do?

Re: Trailing spaces requried

Former Member — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:47:05 GMT

HI,

TRU OFFSET IDEA.

DATA:SRC(100).

SRC+0(40) = STREET1

SRC+40(42) = ' '.

SRC+42(40) = STREET2

SRC+82(42) = ' '.

REWARD POINTS,

KUMAR

Re: Trailing spaces requried

Former Member — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:47:20 GMT

Hi Mizan,

You can use this for your requirement.

Data:
str1(10) type c,
str2(10) type c,
str3(30) type c.

str1 = 'street1   '.
str2 = 'street2   '.
CONCATENATE str1 str2 INTO str3 SEPARATED BY ';' RESPECTING BLANKS .

Write / str3.

Regards,

Samson Rodrigues.

Re: Trailing spaces requried

Former Member — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:53:43 GMT

Hi ,

Try this out using offset,

str3+0(15) = str1.

str3+15(15) = str2.

u will get the spaces as it is.

Regards,

Balakumar.G.

Re: Trailing spaces requried

Former Member — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:55:27 GMT

Hi,

DATA:

str1(10) TYPE c,

str2(10) TYPE c,

str3(30) TYPE c.

str1 = 'street1 '.

str2 = 'street2 '.

str3+0(7) = str1.

str3+11(1) = ';'.

str3+12(7) = str2.

WRITE / str3.

Regards,

V.Balaji

Re: Trailing spaces requried

Former Member — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:57:08 GMT

use : RESPECTING BLANKS

CONCATENATE str1 str2 INTO str3 SEPARATED BY ';' RESPECTING BLANKS

Re: Trailing spaces requried

Former Member — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:01:48 GMT

Hi,

Check the help on Keyword CONCATENATE, there you find an option 'RESPECTING BLANKS'.

Use this option while concatenating two strings, it will keep the blanks intact.

Regards,

Mayank

PS: Reward points if its helpful.

Re: Trailing spaces requried

Former Member — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:05:12 GMT

Data:
str1(10) type c,
str2(10) type c,
str3(30) type c,
str4(10) type c.

str4 = '      '.
str1 = 'street1   '.
str2 = 'street2    '.
CONCATENATE str1 str2 INTO str3 SEPARATED BY  str4.

Write / str3.

i hv changed ur code like this i have add str4 for space now it will display all trailing spaces please check

Re: Trailing spaces requried

Former Member — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:07:53 GMT

Try using the the addition for CONCATENATE statement

... RESPECTING BLANKS

Effect

The addition RESPECTING BLANKS is only allowed during string processing and causes the closing spaces for data objects dobj1 dobj2 ... or rows in the internal table itab to be taken into account. Without the addon, this is only the case with string.

Note

With addition RESPECTING BLANKS, statement CONCATENATE can be used in order to assign any character strings EX>text - taking into account the closing empty character - to target str of type string: CLEAR str. CONCATENATE str text INTO str RESPECTING BLANKS.


TYPES text   TYPE c LENGTH 10. 
DATA  itab   TYPE TABLE OF text. 
DATA  result TYPE string. 

APPEND 'When'  TO itab. 
APPEND 'the'   TO itab. 
APPEND 'music' TO itab. 
APPEND 'is'    TO itab. 
APPEND 'over'  TO itab. 

CONCATENATE LINES OF itab INTO result SEPARATED BY space. 
... 
CONCATENATE LINES OF itab INTO result RESPECTING BLANKS.

After the first CONCATENATE statement, result contains "When_the_music_is_over", after the second statement it contains "When______the_______music_____is________ over______" . The underscores here represent blank characters.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,

Balaji

Re: Trailing spaces requried

Former Member — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:16:08 GMT

Doesn't seem too practical for the separator if the data extracted is dynamicly but based on the field length specified locally. But anyhow seems 'RESPECTING BLANKS' do not work for 4.7. I heard there is a way to use TRANSLATE still testing it out right now.

Re: Trailing spaces requried

Former Member — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:37:59 GMT

do this

Data:

str1(10) type c,

str2(10) type c,

str3(30) type c,

str4(10) type c.

str4 = ' ;'.

str1 = 'street1 '.

str2 = 'street2 '.

CONCATENATE str1 str2 INTO str3 SEPARATED BY str4.

Write / str3.

Re: Trailing spaces requried

Former Member — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:53:36 GMT

Hi,

We can't do that.