Concatenation

[Former Member]

Friends,

I just wanted to concatenate 2 fields by a tab.

Below is the code for the same.

concatenate lv_data CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES=>horizontal_tab

lv_data1 into lv_final.

My Problem :

The values are separated by # and not by space!!

How to resolve it.

Regards,

Usha

[Former Member]

Hope in debug mode it will look like # & not in output or in excel.

regards

gv

[athavanraja]

as Venkat said, in the debug mode it will show as # but in the file it will be a tab.

Regards

Raja

[Former Member]

Given below is my code & output - I don't know the actual cause of the wrong output.

data : lv_data(15) type c value 'Test with Tab',

lv_data1(15) type c value 'Working Good!',

lv_final type string.

concatenate lv_data CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES=>horizontal_tab

lv_data1 into lv_final .

write 😕 lv_final.

Output

Test with Tab#Working Good!

[athavanraja]

you cannot use CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES=>horizontal_tab in ABAP lists. if you want a tab in ABAP list you have to simulate the same using position (WRITE: /10 ).

Regards

Raja

[Former Member]

Try with 'SEPARATED BY space' addition to get space between the strings to concatenate.

regards,

suresh

[Former Member]

Create an extra variable(constant) which is empty and has the desired length and concatenate this with the first variable before concatenating the second.

[Former Member]

Hi Raja,

Can you explain me where can we use these class attributes?

Usha

[athavanraja]

for example if you want to download your internal table to a local pc as <b>text tab delimited file</b> then you can use this.

this and the others like cr_lf, etc are primarly used when you want to dump data from SAP into filesystems.

Regards

Raja