problems with tab

[Former Member]

Hi every body,

I'm trying to process a file which is on the server.

The file has to columns and when i try to fill the data of the columns i realized that i need to identify the tabulation code.

Does anubody know how can i read the data set and identify that 09 key to fill the table in the way i want.

Thanx!!

[Former Member]

Hi!

If you read the whole line into a structure or a variable, you can process it with the following commands:

SPLIT ls_struc AT ' '. "you have to put the tabulator char here between the ' '-s

And how can you enter this?

You can use any kind of text editors, personally I prefer the PSPAD freeware text editor (search it with google and download it if you don't have any). Select the tab character and then copy-paste it into your code.

Regards

Tamá

[SuhaSaha]

Hello,

Which version of SAP are you in ? If i am not mistaken then from version 4.7 you can use the constant CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES=>HORIZONTAL_TAB to identify the TABs.

This has been answered many times before in the forum. You can search it.

BR,

Suhas

[Former Member]

Hai Jon,

check out the following code...

DATA str TYPE string

READ DATASAET <dataset_name> into str

SPLIT str AT CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES=>HORIZONTAL TAB into table <internal_table>.

[Former Member]

Older versions:

data: delimiter(1) type x value '09'.

split <string> at delimiter into <field-list>.

Delimiter will cause an error if Unicode is enabled...switch unicode off in program attributes if not required.

Better solution already mentioned (ABAP Class method) below for later versions.