Concatenatation of filed in one filed

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

I am concatenating few field to a character field..by separating with "|" symbol..it is something like this..

*|||***||** (* refers char value)

few field does not have value for which subsequent '|' symbol is there..

I want number of spaces (as per data-element) should be there instead of blank. Some thing like this..

*| | |***| |**

How to achieve this?

Thanks,

Rajesh

[Former Member]

Try adding SEPARATED BY SPACE to your concatenate.

[Former Member]

I am already separating it by '|' (Pipe) symbol.

Thanks,

Rajesh

[Former Member]

You can try something like this:

REPORT  ZMP_TEST.

DATA: v_string1(3) TYPE C VALUE 'abc',
      v_string2(3) TYPE C VALUE '',
      v_string3(3) TYPE C VALUE 'def',
      v_string4(3) TYPE C VALUE 'ghi',
      v_output(50) TYPE C ,
      sep(1) VALUE '|'.

CONCATENATE v_string1 v_string2 v_string3 v_string4 INTO v_output SEPARATED BY sep RESPECTING BLANKS.
CONDENSE v_output.
BREAK-POINT.

It also depends on the fields you concatenating. The above logic will not work as desired if the other fields also have spaces in them.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Thanks for reply...

I am working in 4.7EE, where this code is not working...

any other way..??

Thanks,

Rajesh.

[Former Member]

Another aproach, this one's dirty and doesn't use concatenate at all.

DATA:
one(3) TYPE c VALUE 'abc',
two(4) TYPE c,
three(3) TYPE c VALUE 'fgh',

BEGIN OF record,
first(3) TYPE c,
h1 TYPE c VALUE '|',
second(4) TYPE c,
h2 TYPE c VALUE '|',
third(3) TYPE c,
END OF record.

START-OF-SELECTION.


  record-first = one.
  record-second = two.
  record-third = three.
  WRITE record.