another problem with CSV FILE

[Former Member]

Hi

I have a field called payee1 which has to be 40 In length.

Now I have added blanks/space after i get the field to make it 40 before I call the 'SAP_CONVERT_TO_CSV_FORMAT'. but then my temp table itab1 shows the same filed with no space and I end up with the exact field length in the csv and also I have payee2 which most of the time don't have any records but my csv should show it with 40 character space right. it doesn't.

here is my code

PARAMETERS: OUTFILE LIKE dxfile-filename

DEFAULT 'C:\Apositivepay.txt',

RUNDATE LIKE PAYR-LAUFD,

Bank LIKE T012K-HBKID. "List of Possible Banks

...

type-pools:TRUXS.

DATA: BEGIN OF OUTPUT_REC OCCURS 0, "Output file for USBANK

ACCT(12), "bank account no

...

Payee1(40) type c, "payee 1

Payee2(40) type c, "payee 2

END OF OUTPUT_REC.

data: itab1 type TRUXS_T_TEXT_DATA.

data: v_outputfile type string.

...

SELECT * FROM PAYR WHERE HBKID = BANK

AND RZAWE IN T_TYPE AND LAUFD = RUNDATE.

...

MOVE: PAYR-ZNME1 TO OUTPUT_REC-PAYEE1.

PERFORM PAD_FIELD_ALPHA_40 USING OUTPUT_REC-PAYEE1.

MOVE: PAYR-ZNME2 TO OUTPUT_REC-PAYEE2.

PERFORM PAD_FIELD_ALPHA_40 USING OUTPUT_REC-PAYEE2.

...

v_outputfile = OUTFILE.

CALL FUNCTION 'SAP_CONVERT_TO_CSV_FORMAT'

EXPORTING

I_FIELD_SEPERATOR = ','

TABLES

I_TAB_SAP_DATA = OUTPUT_REC

CHANGING

I_TAB_CONVERTED_DATA = itab1

EXCEPTIONS

CONVERSION_FAILED = 1

OTHERS = 2.

IF SY-SUBRC <> 0.

MESSAGE ID SY-MSGID TYPE SY-MSGTY NUMBER SY-MSGNO

WITH SY-MSGV1 SY-MSGV2 SY-MSGV3 SY-MSGV4.

ENDIF.

CALL FUNCTION 'GUI_DOWNLOAD'

EXPORTING

filename = v_outputfile

TABLES

DATA_TAB = itab1

EXCEPTIONS

FILE_OPEN_ERROR = 1

FILE_WRITE_ERROR = 2

INVALID_FILESIZE = 3

INVALID_TABLE_WIDTH = 4

INVALID_TYPE = 5

NO_BATCH = 6

UNKNOWN_ERROR = 7

OTHERS = 8.

...

*& Form PAD_FIELD_ALPHA_40

FORM PAD_FIELD_ALPHA_40 USING P_NUM.

DATA: L TYPE I, J TYPE I.

L = STRLEN( P_NUM ).

J = 40 - L.

DO J TIMES.

SHIFT P_NUM RIGHT.

ENDDO.

WHILE SY-SUBRC <> 0.

REPLACE ' ' WITH ' ' INTO P_NUM.

ENDWHILE.

ENDFORM. " PAD_FIELD

[Former Member]

CSV files does not take space into consideration.