How to pad spaces at the end of a string

[Former Member]

Hi All,

I am new to ABAP and need help to achieve this functionality

I have to build a string with fixed lenth . my input string

is always lesser than equal to X . I need to calculate and

add that many spaces at the end of the input string .

I tried to do this and getting the following error

please help on this :

if strlen( t_resultc ) < 525.

RFILL(t_resultc,' ',525)

endif.

Error : Comma without preceding colon(after RFILL(T_RESULTC ?)

Q: Can I use RFILL with out Select statement in a ABAP program

Thanks & Regards

KLK

[former_member156446]

if t_resultc is a character field it ill be carrying spaces by default.

if its not character type just say

t_resultc = space.

[Former Member]

Hi KLK,

you can not use the rfill statement, but this coding seems to work:

DATA:
   t_resultc TYPE string,
   spaces TYPE i.

t_resultc = 'test'.
spaces = 525 - STRLEN( t_resultc ).

DO spaces TIMES.
  CONCATENATE t_resultc space INTO t_resultc
  RESPECTING BLANKS.
ENDDO.

If t_resultc has a fixed length of 525 characters you could also define it like this:

data t_resultc(525) type c.

It would then automatically contain 525 spaces as default value.

Regards

Thomas Langen

[Former Member]

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for the quick responce .

t_resultc is of the type String not Char of fixed length.

I have one question with above code it would add integer

values to the string upto the length of 525

But I need spaces upto the fixed length so can I add character to string ?

I will test and get back.

Thanks & Regards

KLK

[Former Member]

Hi KLK,

the coding above adds space characters, not integers. It think you possibly have confused the data element spaces I defined in the coding with the SPACE character which I used in the concatenate statement.

Regards

Thomas

[Former Member]

Hi Thomas ,

Yes , I was confussed .

So I have added ' ' instead of space .

Thanks a lot for the Do usage syntax .

Please suggest any links or documentations to help me

learn these basic syntax in ABAP .

Thanks once again ,

KLK

[Former Member]

Hi,

I used the book "ABAP Objects" written by Keller and Krüger to learn the basics. The online help is quite useful, too.

Regards,

Thomas Langen

[Former Member]

Hi mate,

      Don't we have a simple function for this than manipulating characters.

[former_member217625]

Hi,

YOU CAN WRITE YOUR LOGIC LIKE THIS:

if strlen( t_resultc ) < 525.

DO.

CONACTENATE T_RESULTC SPACE INTO T_RESULTC.

IF STRLEN(T_RESULTC) = 525.

EXIT.

ENDIF.

ENDDO.

ENDIF.

[andrewdiaz2000]

Hi,

Try the following code but kindly make a note..

Note:-USE quote like this  ` `, Instead of normal single quotes ‘ ’

WHILE strlen( T_RESULTC ) < 525.            “Check the length   

   CONCATENATE  T_RESULTC ` ` INTO T_RESULTC. ”Add spaces at the end   

ENDWHILE.

Hope this helps,

Andrew

[Former Member]

With string templates you could do something like this:

t_resultc = |{ t_resultc WIDTH = 525 PAD = space }|.

[ldzierza]

see The ABAPVARCHARMODE: Blanks and Empty Strings in ABAP and SQLScript - Brandeis Consulting

data: lv_kunnr_tmp type string.

      DATA(cnt_kunnr) = strlen( kna1-kunnr ).

      IF NOT cnt_kunnr = 10.
          lv_kunnr_tmp = |{ kna1-kunnr WIDTH = 10 PAD = space }|.
      ELSE.
        lv_kunnr_tmp = kna1-kunnr.
      ENDIF.

[xmisik]

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