TAB Delimiter !??

[Former Member]

Hi,

I have been trying to write data from an internal table into a file on Application Server.

But, here in the file i need to give a TAB as delimiter.

How to give a tab as a delimiter while TRANSFERing the data onto a file on App. Server ?

Help in this regard is much appreciated !

Thanks & Regards,

Ramesh

[Former Member]

u should not be using hexadecimal chracters for horizontal tabs, its obsolete

check this code and award points if found helpful

CLASS cl_abap_char_utilities DEFINITION LOAD.

DATA: text TYPE string.

REPLACE cl_abap_char_utilites=>horizontal_tab WITH space INTO text.

[Former Member]

Hi Ramesh,

try to define a variable like this:

data: l_var type x default '??'.

I am not sure about the hex-code for TAB that's why the '??'.

Place l_var between each field.

Hope it helps.

regards

Siggi

[Francis417]

Hi Ramesh

You can try defining the following and use it as the tab delimiter.

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

Regards,

Francis

[Former Member]

Ramesh,

Check out the following link:

http://www.sapdevelopment.co.uk/file/file_ascii.htm

This shows you how its done and provides sample code.

Cheers,

Brad

[andreas_mann3]

Hi Ramesh,

look

and replace download with

the commands for appl-srver:

open dataset and transfer

Andreas

[Former Member]

Hi Ramesh,

Did you get your program to work using Tab delimiter to Appl Serve. I am having the same problem.

thanks

Camboo

[rahulkavuri]

In the code above instead of using some variable loaded with hexadecimal value '09' which implies horizontal tab we are loading standard value loaded from class cl_abap_char_utilities

Award points if found helpful, this works perfectly with unicode system too but the former does not in Unicode system

[rahulkavuri]

u should not be using hexadecimal chracters for horizontal tabs, its obsolete

check this code and award points if found helpful

CLASS cl_abap_char_utilities DEFINITION LOAD.

DATA: text TYPE string.

REPLACE cl_abap_char_utilites=>horizontal_tab WITH space INTO text.

[Former Member]

HI,

Please try something like this, this shall create a TAB delimited file.

DATA: SEPARATOR TYPE X VALUE '09'.

LOOP AT ITAB_OUTBOUND INTO WA_ITAB_OUT.

CONCATENATE WA_ITAB_OUT-ZZNWKPF

WA_ITAB_OUT-BISMT

WA_ITAB_OUT-MATNR

WA_ITAB_OUT-ZZBRRID

WA_ITAB_OUT-MSTAE

WA_ITAB_OUT-ZZINSTD

WA_ITAB_OUT-ZZDISCD

INTO TEMP_LINE SEPARATED BY SEPARATOR.

" Transfer records to outbound file.

TRANSFER TEMP_LINE TO OBFILE.

ENDLOOP.

Regards,

-Venkat.