LSMW with object 0070 and program RV14BTCI, XK15 and non numerical vendor

[alisa_schlossberg-majer]

I am using LSMW with object 0070 and program RV14BTCI, with XK15.

I concatenate vendor, material, purchasing org, plant and inforecord type.

when using a numerical vendor, I add the leading zeroes but when the vendor is alphanumeric I need to add spaces.

the issue is that when I add the spaces after the vendor, the system does not recognize it and inserts data from the next field instead, affecting also the next fields

how can I concatenate spaces or an alphanumeric vendor into VAKEY?

[Sandra_Rossi]

In ABAP, trailing spaces are always ignored with the C type. They are considered only if you define them with the STRING type (by using backquotes instead of single quotes).

[alisa_schlossberg-majer]

hallo Sandra

thank you for the reply.

generally speaking I am aware of the fact that trailing spaces are ignored in ABAP and I can see that also in table LFA1 in the unconverted value of the vendor.

But it seems that in VAKEY they are: in fact I tried to add the spaces before the vendor and the system saw it, the fields were correct in their right spaces: the issue was that the system did not recognize the vendor because it considered the spaces

[raymond_giuseppi]

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[alisa_schlossberg-majer]

hello Raymond, there is no other options to Sandra's comment

[raymond_giuseppi]

(Use comment on our original question)