Smartform printing # in place of space for some item description

[Former Member]

Hi,

I need to replace # in the smartforms printing in place of space. On debugging what I see is that value does not have #, space is there. But when we go out to print smartform or print preview smartform, it is showing #. On debug I changed the values manually then it is printing fine.

I also used :

replace all occurrences of  cl_abap_char_utilities=>CR_LF in str with space. But no help.

Please advise.

Regards,

Devanshu

[Former Member]

How you are generating the value in the first place? What is the source?

[Former Member]

Hi Devanshu ,

Please change your output device and check.

Regards,

Aakash

[Former Member]

How can I change that? Please advise

[Former Member]

When you execute your program , it will ask for output device . Change it and check again .

[Former Member]

This helped a bit. Please check the scenario below :

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[Former Member]

It may be a tab.

try replace all occurrences of  cl_abap_char_utilities=>HORIZONTAL_TAB in str with space.

R

[Private_Member_7726]

A0 is so called non-breaking space. While it may (should) be possible to make SAP Spool system to recognize and process them as "normal" spaces (on our SAP_BASIS 740 SP 12 system the preview is already correct, for example), if there is no valid reason for having them, instead of trying to fix the output, I'd try to find out where are they coming from and fix them at the source - migrate the descriptions for example. CL_ABAP_CONV_IN_CE=>uccp( '00A0' ) call returns non-breaking space as character.

cheers

Jānis

[michael_kozlowski]

Hi,

try replace all occurrences of regex '[^[:print:]]' in str with ` `.

[Former Member]

Tried it. But no help.

[michael_kozlowski]

Hi, in smartform. Is multiple line option for field ticked?

[michael_kozlowski]

Hi, change device type to a unicode supporting device type.

[Private_Member_7726]

Hi,

What is the hexdecimal value of this "space"?

cheers

Janis

[Former Member]

Hexadecimal value for space here on debugging is coming 'A0', while the value which are printing fine for them it is coming '20'