topic Re: character hash (## ) while debugging in Application Development and Automation Discussions

character hash (## ) while debugging

Former Member — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:12:15 GMT

Hi All,

I am seeing in the below shown code while debugging

the character hash (## line 820 -822) .

I didn't set them they are also not existing in my source.

They were set automatically it is very strange.

Do have an idea why ?

Regards

ertas

817	clear wa_zehs_incident_li.
818	LOOP AT lt_zehs_incident_li INTO wa_zehs_incident_li
819	                 where     LOA          in s_uort
820	##     and     WTIME        in s_azeit
821	##     and     machine      in s_masch
822	##     and     injury       IN s_verlet
823	                   and     bodypart     IN s_kteil
824	                   and     ORGEH        in p_orgeh
825	                   and     PERSA        in s_per
826	                   and     BTRTL        in s_ptb.
828	IF SY-SUBRC EQ 0.
829	MOVE wa_zehs_incident_li TO lt_ZEHS_INCIDENT_RES.
830	APPEND lt_ZEHS_INCIDENT_RES.
831	ENDIF.
832	ENDLOOP.

Re: character hash (## ) while debugging

Former Member — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:16:26 GMT

Activate the code once again and check again in debugging ...

Re: character hash (## ) while debugging

Former Member — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:21:29 GMT

everythig has been activated!

What else can cause that ?

Reagards

ertas

Re: character hash (## ) while debugging

Former Member — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:32:17 GMT

Hi,

DId you copy and pasted this code in your program?

When ever you copy and paste the code from ms word then in SE38 tab spaces will be replaced with the ASCII characters so just remove those tab spaces from your proagram.

Or rather copying this from MS word you just type all code manually in the program.

Thanks,

Shravan G.

Re: character hash (## ) while debugging

Former Member — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:38:18 GMT

This is probably because how SAP handles TABs. The SAP editor does no insert TABs. Pressing the TAB key while writing you code will not insert a tab but multiple SPACEs (generally 2).

However, if the code is written in another editor (say notepad) and pasted in SAP, the TABs are not converted to SPACEs. While debugging, these are rendered as #.

This will not affect your program in any way.

In case you want to remove these, just delete the concerned lines and rewrite in SAP editor. This should remove the issue.

A sure way of confirming this is to see your code in the SAP editor. The AND will be aligned with the WHERE and not to the left of WHERE as shown below below.

P.S : This is from experience, and not from any documentation or knowledge repository. So I may be wrong.