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Fill empty field by space

Former Member — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:43:21 GMT

i have an internal table

field1 field2 field3 field4

c1 c2 c3 c4

c5 c6 c7 c8

i am concatenating each row into a string separated by space.

my problem is this: if c3 or c4 is empty, it should be filled with space. The downloaded file should be like this.

length of c3 is 16 and length of c4 is 50

1900000094 23/05/2008 IBM INDIA LTD Purchase the LAPTOP

1900000096 23/05/2008 Training SAP

Re: Fill empty field by space

Former Member — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:04:02 GMT

Try this:


data: space1 type CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES=>SPACE_STR. 
l_length = strlen (itab-field1).
Do l_length times.
 concatenate itab-field1 space1 into itab-field1.
enddo.

Re: Fill empty field by space

JozsefSzikszai — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:14:33 GMT

hi,

I think there are two ways to go:

CONCATENATE field1 field2 ... INTO string SEPARATED BY space RESPECTING BLANKS.

However this works only in 6.0 (because of the RESPECTING BLANKS)

2. Use offsets:

string+n(16) = field3. (n will be the starting position of field3 minus 1)

string+x(50) = field4.

hope this helps

Re: Fill empty field by space

Former Member — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:21:24 GMT

Thanks Eric,

could you pls explain it? below is my code. this is not working.

if wa_linedata-xblnr = ' '.

here i want to fill wa_linedata-xblnr by space.

string+n(16) = wa_linedata-xblnr.

endif.

Re: Fill empty field by space

Former Member — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:25:52 GMT

hi check this...use this..

data: filler(16) TYPE c VALUE cl_abap_char_utilities=>HORIZONTAL_TAB.

Re: Fill empty field by space

kesavadas_thekkillath — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:57:34 GMT

if u r facing the problem using normal concatenate statement then do some thing like this.

loop at itab.

if itab-c1 is not initial.

wk_string = itab-c1.

elseif itab-c2 is not initial.

concatenate wk_string itab-c2 into wk_string separated by space.

elseif itab-c3 is not initial.

concatenate wk_string itab-c3 into wk_string separated by space..

elseif itab-c4 is not initial.

concatenate wk_string itab-c4 into wk_string separated by space.

endif.

write wk_string.

endloop.

do find out whether there is any better way than this

Re: Fill empty field by space

Former Member — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:58:21 GMT

Hi Sourav Bhaduri,

Thanks for ur reply.. I tried this code.

data : space1 type CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES=>SPACE_STR.

I got this error : The type "SPACE_STR" is unknown.

Re: Fill empty field by space

kesavadas_thekkillath — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:01:25 GMT

i have replied wrongly i guess...

Re: Fill empty field by space

Former Member — Fri, 15 May 2015 16:26:03 GMT

Hi Christy,

CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES=>SPACE_STR

The Visibility for SPACE_STR is a PRIVATE, hence it cannot be used for declaration.

Regards,

Rafi

Re: Fill empty field by space

Former Member — Fri, 15 May 2015 16:35:54 GMT

Why are you concatenating everything into a string? Can't you just download your structured itab since all the components seem to be character type? If you actually need a space between each field then declare another work area with the same fields plus a CHAR1 field between each and download from that structure.

JIm

Re: Fill empty field by space

former_member184158 — Fri, 15 May 2015 18:30:39 GMT

yes you are right,

but this is public.

CL_SCSM_XML_WRITER=>SPACE_STR

Re: Fill empty field by space

former_member184158 — Fri, 15 May 2015 18:31:19 GMT

CL_SCSM_XML_WRITER=>SPACE_STR