What does the # sign mean in my internal table?

[Former Member]

I downloaded a file into an internal table as ASCII, I get # signs? What does this mean exactly? Thank-You.

Edited by: TMM on Apr 12, 2009 9:16 AM

[Former Member]

Hi TMM,

1. sign is an ASCII code replacement for the Horizontal Tab in your file. The ABAP equivalent for it is CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES=>HORIZONTAL_TAB

Hence to get the individual columns from a line separated by # use SPLIT AT CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES=>HORIZONTAL_TAB and it should help.

Cheers,

Aditya

[Former Member]

1. indicates tab delimited data.

Try uploading comma seperated file.

Regards,

Lalit Mohan Gupta.

[matt]

1. may indicate a tab character. It also may indicate a carriage return or linefeed.

Generally, any non-displayable character will be seen as a #. However, the data remains unchanged, as you can see if you look at the hex values in the debugger.

matt