Sorting Issue

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

I have one query in sorting. I have one column as Character type.

In that column it contains values like 6-9, 10-15, 16, 17, 18 kind of.

Now while sorting I wanted that it should display like

6-9

10-15

16

17

18.

If I do using sort statement it is not coming in desired format. Can anybody will suggest me how I can do that?

Regards,

Neha

[rvinod1982]

Hi Neha,

Is it possible to change the value of 6-9 to 06-09?

If you change it then the sorting will be proper.

Regards,

Vinod

[Former Member]

Hi,

i think you can acheive this only by manipulating data when you are creating the internal table

check the last entered value for that column , check if the next value is greater - something like that

Regards

Sajimon Chandran

[Former Member]

Hi,

Try this way....

data: begin of it,
        chk type i,
        fld type char6,
      end of it.
data: itab like table of it with header line.

MOVE '1' TO itab-chk.
MOVE '6-9' TO itab-fld.
APPEND itab.

MOVE '2' TO itab-chk.
MOVE '10-15' TO itab-fld.
APPEND itab.

MOVE '3' TO itab-chk.
MOVE '16-20' TO itab-fld.
APPEND itab.

MOVE '4' TO itab-chk.
MOVE '21' TO itab-fld.
APPEND itab.

MOVE '5' TO itab-chk.
MOVE '22' TO itab-fld.
APPEND itab.
MOVE '23' TO itab-fld.
APPEND itab.

SORT ITAB ASCENDING BY chk.
LOOP AT ITAB.
WRITE:/ ITAB-FLD.
ENDLOOP.

Regards,

Shankar.

[Former Member]

Hi Neha,

You can use a temporary supplementary field in your internal table, say num, that you can fill automatically with the first number and sort by this column :

  TYPES : BEGIN OF ts_test,
            col TYPE string,  " column with your original field
            num TYPE i,       " column with the first number (integer for the sort)
          END OF ts_test.

  DATA : lt_test TYPE tt_test,
         ld_test TYPE i.

  LOOP AT lt_test ASSIGNING <ls_test>.
" Split your field at symbol "-"
    FIND '-' IN <ls_test>-col MATCH OFFSET ld_test.
    IF sy-subrc = 0.
" If found keep only first number
      MOVE <ls_test>-col(ld_test) TO <ls_test>-num.
    ELSE.
" else keep your field
      MOVE <ls_test>-col TO <ls_test>-num.
    ENDIF.
  ENDLOOP.

  SORT lt_test BY num.

Hope it help!

Samuel

[Former Member]

Hi,

Make 1 internal table with 2 fields.

split your target characters on the basis of '-'. And Append into the internal table field respectively.Then sort the table on the basis of first field then second field. Then concatenate the fields of internal table with '-' , if the second field is not vacant.

[Former Member]

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