condense statement

[Former Member]

what is condense statement and its function.

[Former Member]

Hello,

Syntaxdiagramm 
CONDENSE 


Basic form 
CONDENSE c. 

Addition: 
... NO-GAPS 



Note 
Like all string processsing statements, you can only use character-type operands here. 
If the type of an operand is not STRING, the operand is treated like a type C field, regardless of its actual type, even though no actual conversion takes place. 



In an ABAP Objects context, a more severe syntax check is performed that in other ABAP areas. See Only character fields allowed in string processing. 

Effect 
Shifts the contents of c to the left, so that sequences of blanks are reduced to exactly one blank. Leading spaces (and, for type C fields, trailing spaces as well), are removed completely. 



Example
DATA NAME (30). 
        NAME(10)    = '   Dr.', 
        NAME+10(10) = 'Michael', 
        NAME+20(10) = 'Hofmann'. 
CONDENSE NAME. 
WRITE NAME. 



produces the output: 

Dr. Michael Hofmann 



Addition 
... NO-GAPS 


Effect 
Suppresses all blanks from the field c 



Example
DATA: BEGIN OF NAME, 
        TITLE(8)       VALUE '   Dr.', 
        FIRST_NAME(10) VALUE 'Michael', 
        SURNAME(10)    VALUE 'Hofmann', 
      END   OF NAME. 
CONDENSE NAME NO-GAPS. 



The contents of NAME is now "Dr.MichaelHofmann". 

Since the field string NAME is interpreted and handled like a type C field, the CONDENSE statement treats it as a whole and ignores any sub-fields. The contents of the sub-field would therefore now be as follows: 

NAME-TITLE       = 'Dr.Micha' 
NAME-FIRST_NAME  = 'elHofmann ' 
NAME-SURNAME     = '          ' 



Note 
Do not use CONDENSE to manipulate structures that include fields not of type C. This could result in the subfields containing characters of a different (i.e. incorrect) type. You cannot use the statement with structures containing components of type STRING. 






Note 
Performance: 



The runtime required to condense three fields is about 20 msn (standardized microseconds). The variant ... NO-GAPS needs about 12 msn. 

Related 
SHIFT, CONCATENATE, REPLACE, SPLIT 


Additional help 
Compressing Field Contents 

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Vasanth

[Former Member]

Hi Vijay

The CONDENSE statement deletes redundant spaces from a string:

CONDENSE <c> [NO-GAPS].

This statement removes any leading blanks in the field <c> and replaces other sequences of blanks by exactly one blank. The result is a left-justified sequence of words, each separated by one blank. If the addition NO-GAPS is specified, all blanks are removed.

DATA: STRING(25) VALUE ' one two three four',
LEN TYPE I.

LEN = STRLEN( STRING ).
WRITE: STRING, '!'.
WRITE: / 'Length: ', LEN.

CONDENSE STRING.
LEN = STRLEN( STRING ).
WRITE: STRING, '!'.
WRITE: / 'Length: ', LEN.

CONDENSE STRING NO-GAPS.
LEN = STRLEN( STRING ).
WRITE: STRING, '!'.
WRITE: / 'Length: ', LEN.

Output:

one two three four !

Length: 25

one two three four !

Length: 18

onetwothreefour !

Length: 15

Note that the total length of the field STRING remains unchanged, but that the deleted blanks appear again on the right.

Regards Rk

[harishaginati]

Hi,

its for Suppresses all blanks from the field of type CHAR,

reward points and close the thread.

Cheers,

Harish

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Harish AGINATI

[Former Member]

hi

Removes spaces from a string.

<b>Syntax</b>

CONDENSE <c> [NO-GAPS].

Removes all leading spaces, and replaces other series of blanks with a single space in the character field <c>. If you use the NO-GAPS addition, all of the spaces are removed.

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