Creating tab delimited file

[Former Member]

Hi,

Can anybody tell me how to create tab delimited file using ABAP. I am using 4.6C ( so I cant use cl_gui_char_utilities ) and I want to download the file to application server ( GUI_DOWNLOAD cant be used ).

Thanks,

Sameej

[ssimsekler]

Hi Sameej

Look at SAPHelp about <b>"OPEN DATASET"</b> and <b>"CLOSE DATASET"</b> statements for downloading files to the application server. To download to presentation layer you can use <b>"WS_DOWNLOAD"</b> at 4.6C.

The FM <b>"C13Z_FILE_UPLOAD_BINARY"</b> and <b>"C13Z_FILE_DOWNLOAD_BINARY"</b> can also be used if you have them.

*--Serdar

[Former Member]

What I am looking forward is to separate the fields by TAB-DELIMITER.

[andreas_mann3]

Hi,

-> here's an example to separate the fields by tab:

DATA: BEGIN OF tabulator,

x(1) TYPE x VALUE '09',

END OF tabulator.

data tabilator_c.

...

CALL FUNCTION 'SYSTEM_CODEPAGE'

IMPORTING

codepage = c_to.

tabulator_c = tabulator.

TRANSLATE tabulator_c FROM CODE PAGE c_from TO CODE PAGE c_to.

...

*for int. table

loop at itab.

...

clear string.

do.

assign component sy-index of structure itab to <f>.

IF SY-SUBRC <> 0.

EXIT.

ENDIF.

concatenate string <f> tabulator_c into string.

enddo.

append string to tab_download.

...

endloop.

...

CALL FUNCTION 'GUI_DOWNLOAD'

EXPORTING

FILETYPE = 'ASC'

FILENAME = FILE

TABLES

DATA_TAB = tab_download.

Grx Andreas

[nablan_umar]

Hi Sameet,

I think Andreas has given you some good info. In short basically you need to do this.

data: lv_tabfield(1) type x value '09',

lv_str(80).

....

open dataset lv_filename for output in text mode.

concatenate field1 field2 field2 into lv_str separated by

lv_tabfield.

transfer lv_str to lv_filename.

close dataset lv_filename.

[Former Member]

Thanks Andrea, Nablan.