Replace double space by single space

[Former Member]

Hi all,

Can anybody please tell me how we can replace double space by single space.

For example

Here double space between D and X -> 'ABCD XY GHU'

Should be like this -> 'ABCD XY GHU'

I have tried

WHILE l_value CA ` `.

REPLACE ` ` WITH space INTO l_value.

ENDWHILE.

and

WHILE l_value CA ' '.

REPLACE ' ' WITH space INTO l_value. "SGA 2A015857

ENDWHILE.

But its not working and giving dump.

Please try to help me out.

Thanks & Regards

Swati

[Former Member]

Hi Swati,

Declare a constant varable with value 2 spaces and do like this

CONSTANTS: c_space(2) type c value ' '.

REPLACE c_space WITH space INTO l_value.

Try this

CONDENSE l_value.

Regards,

Satish

Edited by: Satish Panakala on Apr 10, 2008 2:12 PM

[ThomasZloch]

use the statement CONDENSE, it does exactly what you want here.

Cheers

Thomas

[Sm1tje]

You can do a split at space into an internal table and next concatenate all valid entries (the ones which CA sy-abcde) into an new field separated by space.

[Former Member]

Hi,

try this:

data: txt(20) value 'AAA VVV TT'.

*

write: txt.

*

condense txt.

*

write: txt.

Regards, Dieter

[vinod_vemuru2]

Hi Swaiti,

U can use CONDENSE statement. This will remove all extra spaces i.e. keeps one space between words.

l_value = 'ABCD XY GHU'.

WRITE:/1 l_value.

CONDENSE l_value.

WRITE:/1 l_value.

Thanks,

Vinod.

Edited by: Vinod Kumar Vemuru on Apr 10, 2008 6:48 PM

Edited by: Vinod Kumar Vemuru on Apr 10, 2008 6:53 PM