Delete leading spaces

[Former Member]

Hello,

I want to delete leading spaces of one field, which is of type STPOX-MNGLG its a quantity field.

Regards,

Amey

[Former Member]

Hi,

Use Condense statement if it is Script or Smartform &STPOX-MNGLG(C)& : Script or Smartform

In case of others move that variable to a char type var of same length and use condense statement after that.

It works....

[venkata_ramisetti]

Hi,

Why you want to delete leading space in Qty field.

If this is for display in the outout, you can use WRITE wtih LEFT-JUSTIFIED option.

If my understanding is not corerct, Can you please give more details about your issue.

Thanks,

Ramakrishna

[Former Member]

Hi Amey,

For quantity fields first you need to move to char field and do it.

SHIFT V_CHAR LEFT DELETING LEADING space.

Or else it wont work. Even I got the same problem long back.I dint in that way only.

Thanks & Regards,

Siir.

[former_member188685]

Hi Use condense.

regards

vijay

[former_member181962]

Hi Amey,

pass it to a character variable and then remove the leading spaces by

using the condense command.

Regards,

ravi

[Former Member]

Amey,

You can try "condense" with "No-gaps" options

Here is an example

DATA: BEGIN OF NAME,

TITLE(8) VALUE ' Dr.',

FIRST_NAME(10) VALUE 'Michael',

SURNAME(10) VALUE 'Hofmann',

END OF NAME.

CONDENSE NAME NO-GAPS.

The contents of NAME is now "Dr.MichaelHofmann".

Since the field string NAME is interpreted and handled like a

type C field, the CONDENSE statement treats it as a whole and

ignores any sub-fields. The contents of the sub-field would

therefore now be as follows:

NAME-TITLE = 'Dr.Micha'

NAME-FIRST_NAME = 'elHofmann '

NAME-SURNAME = ' '

[Former Member]

Hi Amey,

2 ways to do it:

1. Declare another variable <Var1> of type C of 15 characters long.

WRITE <varible of type STPOX-MNGLG> to <var1>.

condense <Var1>.

2. Since it is a quantity field, the value is right justified, try formatting the output as left justified.

Naveen.