How to remove whitespace in .dat file in Al11?

[walkerist]

I'm debugging a custom program which creates a document in AL11. Is it possible to remove the whitespace?

Whitespace is highlighted in blue. Additionally, I want to put "#" or " | " at the end of the line.

Edit: assuming that the pipes in the image are borders between null values.

Sometimes the output is:

|50|123|444|122222| *whitespace*

[Sandra_Rossi]

Yes. This won't create any trailing space:

TRANSFER '50||||...........001|||||||||' TO textfile.

[Tomas_Buryanek]

How can we help without you sharing relevant piece of code?

[thkolz]

l_concat = l_concat && '|'.
CONDESE l_concat NO-GAPS.

Actually that looks like code from hell!

[walkerist]

should I insert it here? the value of c_del is ' | '

*    DO.
*      ASSIGN COMPONENT sy-index
*        OF STRUCTURE <fs_final>
*        TO <fs_field>.
*        IF sy-subrc EQ 0.
*          IF sy-index EQ 1.
*            DATA(l_concat) =
*              CONV string( <fs_field> ).
*              l_concat = c_del && l_concat.
*          ELSE.
*            IF <fs_field> IS NOT INITIAL.
*              l_concat = l_concat &&
*                         c_del &&
*                         <fs_field>.
*            ENDIF.
*            IF <fs_field> IS INITIAL.
*              l_concat = l_concat &&
*                         c_del.
*            ENDIF.
*          ENDIF.
*          l_count = l_count + 1.
*        ELSE.
*          EXIT.
*        ENDIF.
*    ENDDO.
*      outlines = outlines + 1.
*      move-corresponding

[thkolz]

DO.
  ASSIGN COMPONENT sy-index
         OF STRUCTURE <fs_final>
         TO <fs_field>.
  IF sy-subrc = 0.
    lv_concat = lv_concat && CONV string( <fs_field> ) && c_del.
  ELSE.
*   Last field => add last delimiter and exit
    lv_concat = lv_concat && c_del.
    EXIT.
  ENDIF.
ENDDO.

* Remove leading/trailing blanks and all substrings that contain nothing but blanks 
CONDENSE lv_concat NO-GAPS.

WRITE:/ lv_concat.

[walkerist]

c12b61ded10b4e18beae75c3b6218d2c Hi, I've tried replicating your code but still encountering a whitespace. This is a subroutine pool. Is it possible to debug it?

[Sandra_Rossi]

walkerist Why don't you use debugger F9 at the ABAP statement TRANSFER? I'm pretty sure it will work even for generated subroutine pools.

[walkerist]

@tomas.buryanek modified