how to concatenate a string with spaces

[former_member431874]

Dear experts,

I would like to concatenate a string with three spaces, for example,

CONCATENATE 'X' SPACE SPACE SPACE 'Y' INTO LV_RESULT.

However, the result I got from executing the above statement is not 'X Y' as I want, but rather 'XY'.

I did try

CONCATENATE 'X' '***' 'Y' INTO LV_RESULT.

REPLACE '***' with ' ' INTO LV_RESULT.

still doesn't work.

How can I write ABAP code to archive such a result?

Any idea would be appreciated.

Vitthavat A.

[former_member431874]

Dear experts,

I would like to concatenate a string with three spaces, for example,

CONCATENATE 'X' SPACE SPACE SPACE 'Y' INTO LV_RESULT.

However, the result I got from executing the above statement is not 'X Y' as I want, but rather 'XY'.

I did try

CONCATENATE 'X' '***' 'Y' INTO LV_RESULT.

REPLACE '***' with ' ' INTO LV_RESULT.

still doesn't work.

How can I write ABAP code to archive such a result?

Any idea would be appreciated.

Vitthavat A.

[Shahid]

CONCATENATE 'x' 'y' into lv_string SEPARATED BY space.

[former_member431874]

Dear ssm and koolspy,

thank you for your answer. however, I want THREE spaces between 'X' and 'Y'. Your code will give me only one space.

[Former Member]

Hi,

do not use ' but ` to surround your string (`text ` instead of 'text ').

And then do not use "separeted by".

Best regards,

Oliver

Edited by: Oliver Hütköper on Jul 21, 2011 12:40 PM

[koolspy_ultimate]

hi

try this

concenate 'x'  'y'  into lv_string seperated by space.

[Shahid]

data: lv_string type string.

data: lv_str2 type string.

CONCATENATE 'x' ' ' into lv_string SEPARATED BY space.

CONCATENATE ' ' ' ' into lv_str2 SEPARATED BY space.

CONCATENATE lv_string lv_str2 into lv_str2 SEPARATED BY space.

CONCATENATE lv_str2 'y' into lv_string SEPARATED BY space.

write: lv_string.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Try this.

CONSTANTS lc_str(3) type c VALUE '   '.
DATA lv_string TYPE string.
CONCATENATE 'x' lc_str lc_str 'y' INTO lv_string SEPARATED BY space.
WRITE lv_string.

Regards

HM

[Former Member]

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[koolspy_ultimate]

try this

constants  temp(1) type c value ' '.

DATA lv_string TYPE string.

concatenate  'x'  temp temp 'y' into lv_string separated by space.  " use temp no of times for no of spaces.
" i.e if you want 4 spaces then write temp 3 times.
write:/  lv_string.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Try this

CONCATENATE A space space space B INTO C RESPECTING BLANK. 

Thanks,

Anmol

[former_member302911]

Try RESPECTING BLANKS...

CONCATENATE 'X' SPACE SPACE SPACE 'Y' INTO LV_RESULT RESPECTING BLANKS.

Regards,

Angelo.

[former_member761427]

Worked for me thanks.

[former_member431874]

solved.

thank you everyone.

i do this:

concatenate IBASIC-KUNNR IBASIC-MATNR into E1KOMG-VAKEY.

lv_len = strlen( E1KOMG-VAKEY ).

lv_shift = 100 - lv_len.

lv_shift = lv_shift - 3.

lv_shift = lv_len + lv_shift.

shift E1KOMG-VAKEY by lv_shift places circular.

concatenate IBASIC-VKORG E1KOMG-VAKEY into E1KOMG-VAKEY.

*while 100 is the length of E1KOMG-VAKEY.

[former_member431874]

dear Oliver Hütköper and koolspy,

I tried your solutions, and it works.

so i awarded points to you.

anyway, while trying the 'respecting blanks', i got an error:

"".", "IN BYTE MODE", "SEPARATED BY ..." or "IN CHARACTER MODE" expected"

not sure what it means. but it's ok. the problem has been solved.

thanks again.

[Former Member]

Hi,

DATA: lv_str TYPE string, lv_space(5) TYPE c.

CONCATENATE 'abc' 'def' INTO lv_str SEPARATED BY lv_space.

WRITE:/ lv_str.

Ram.

[Former Member]

if there is thousands of files then?

[former_member1230660]

Contants: lv_space(3) type c value '   '.

Concatenate var1 var2 into var3 separated by lv_space.