在ABAP中处理上传文件的TAB、回车、换行问题的讨论

Hi ,

I have an issue with removing the carriage return / Tab from the extracted (Flat File) data from SAP EKPO table.

1) While uploading(Long Back) the Legacy data to SAP tables the carriage returns and Tabs in Product description were uploaded to SAP tables.
2) Now I am extracting data from bkpf,..EKPO.. tables to a flat file .
3) When I extract the data i. PO number, Product description,……
The Product description is going to 3 to 5 lines depending on the carriage returns and Tabs in the Product description. Ekpo-txz01

Ex : Mfg # DS104NA / NET######GEAR DS104 Hub######model
I want this product description in one continuous line. It is possible only by removing the Carriage returns and tabs from product description before concatenating and TRANSFERING the file to Server.

4) What is getting: The line is breaking @gear @ Hub due to Carriage return/Tab
Mfg D NET
GEAR DS104 Hub
model .

5) What is required is: in one line
Mfg D NETGEAR DS104 model

In the process I am extracting product description from Ekpo-txz01 . So it is internal table. Now I want to remove the carriage return / Tab .
How these can be removed.

Thanks,

Vasu
 

Nablan Umar

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 Re: Removing the carriage return / Tab during data extraction  
Posted: Nov 4, 2004 4:05 PM      Reply      E-mail this post 
 

Vasu,

You can replace tab and carriage return of your text using REPLACE command.

REPLACE cl_abap_char_utilities=>horizontal_tab in
Ekpo-txz01 with ‘ ‘.
REPLACE cl_abap_char_utilities=>CR_LF in
Ekpo-txz01 with ‘ ‘.
 

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 Re: Removing the carriage return / Tab during data extraction
Posted: Nov 4, 2004 6:01 PM      Reply      E-mail this post 
 

Hi Umar,
First thanks for giving some solution.

When I use the code as suggested,
1. It is removing ‘Tab’ only. It is not removing carriage return.
2. It is removing one TAB at a time.
3. Still I am seeing a BOX [] after the text in flat file. i.e carriage return is not removed from Ekpo-txz01 .

I Used this and passing Ekpo-txz01 in a loop.
REPLACE cl_abap_char_utilities=>horizontal_tab in
Ekpo-txz01 with ‘ ‘.
REPLACE cl_abap_char_utilities=>CR_LF in
Ekpo-txz01 with ‘ ‘.

Can you suggest some solution/idea for this.

Thanks,

Vasu
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 Re: Removing the carriage return / Tab during data extraction  
Posted: Nov 5, 2004 4:58 AM      Reply      E-mail this post 
 

Try using the TRANSLATE statement instead (as this replaces all instances of the constant found in the string being evaluated).

Hope this helps.

Rosie Brent
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 Re: Removing the carriage return / Tab during data extraction  
Posted: Nov 5, 2004 10:48 AM      Reply      E-mail this post 
 

Double-click on cl_abap_char_utilities=>CR_LF. You will see other attributes that equal to that BOX. Maybe it is NEWLINE.
 

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 Re: Removing the carriage return / Tab during data extraction
Posted: Nov 5, 2004 1:57 PM      Reply      E-mail this post 
 

Hi,
I have used all:

REPLACE cl_abap_char_utilities=>horizontal_tab in
ZTEST001_ITAB-DESCTXZ01 with ‘ ‘.

REPLACE cl_abap_char_utilities=>CR_LF in
ZTEST001_ITAB-DESCTXZ01 with ‘ ‘.

REPLACE cl_abap_char_utilities=>VERTICAL_TAB in
ZTEST001_ITAB-DESCTXZ01 with ‘ ‘.

REPLACE cl_abap_char_utilities=>NEWLINE in
ZTEST001_ITAB-DESCTXZ01 with ‘ ‘.

REPLACE cl_abap_char_utilities=>FORM_FEED in
ZTEST001_ITAB-DESCTXZ01 with ‘ ‘.

REPLACE cl_abap_char_utilities=>BACKSPACE in
ZTEST001_ITAB-DESCTXZ01 with ‘ ‘.

REPLACE cl_abap_char_utilities=>SPACE_STR in
ZTEST001_ITAB-DESCTXZ01 with ‘ ‘.

REPLACE cl_abap_char_utilities=>FORM_FEED in
ZTEST001_ITAB-DESCTXZ01 with ‘ ‘.

Still I was getting symbol [] .

In test data I created this error by pressing ENTER key.

I created a flat file with TAB key and Enter key. Then I uploaded to custom table in SAP. I could see the #### symbols in table.

Then I extracted data to a flat file on server. The TAB keys were removed. But the “Enter key” is shown as [].
Any info on this issue please. How to remove these [] from flat file.

Thanks,

Vasu

Note: On double clicking I am not seeing any thing like []. I could see ## # .
 

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 Re: Removing the carriage return / Tab during data extraction
Posted: Nov 5, 2004 2:05 PM      Reply      E-mail this post 
 

Hi,
I tried to use:
data x type x value ‘0A’.
TRANSLATE ZTEST001_ITAB-DESCTXZ01 using x.
I am getting eror : X must be a character-type data object(data type C,N,D,T OR string).

Any info in solving this.

Thanks,

Vasu
 

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 Re: Removing the carriage return / Tab during data extraction  
Posted: Nov 5, 2004 2:27 PM      Reply      E-mail this post 
 

Hi

It seems TRANSLATE statement doen’t like x-type arguments.
Our system is 4.6D and I have never used it but give a try to:
REPLACE ALL OCCURRENCES OF x IN y WITH z.

Hope it helps…

*–Serdar
 

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 Re: Removing the carriage return / Tab during data extraction
Posted: Nov 5, 2004 3:16 PM      Reply      E-mail this post 
 

Hi,
I tried:
data : CR type x value ‘0D’,
NL type x value ‘0A’.
REPLACE ALL OCCURRENCES OF CR IN ZTEST001_ITAB-DESCTXZ01 WITH ”.

I am getting eror : X must be a character-type data object(data type C,N,D,T OR string).

ZTEST001_ITAB-DESCTXZ01 is like ekpo-txz01.

Thanks,

Vasu
 

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 Re: Removing the carriage return / Tab during data extraction  
Posted: Nov 5, 2004 3:21 PM      Reply      E-mail this post 
 

Hi Vasu

Can’t you do this removal of special characters before sending data to SAP?

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 Re: Removing the carriage return / Tab during data extraction  
Posted: Nov 5, 2004 4:08 PM      Reply      E-mail this post 
 

Vasu,

Replace need the fields to be character type. Since the problem is that you are not able to find the correct code for that [] (newline), why don’t you see the hex representation of that weird character. You can do that by doing this.

1. Put a break point in your program.
2. While in debugging, display that string. Click on binacular plus icon at the right of field contents.
3. Find out the hex representation of that weird character.
4. Then in your program, declare a variable of type ABAP_CHAR1. Set it to the character you found in 3)
5. Then do a replace on this field.

Hope this will work.
 

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 Re: Removing the carriage return / Tab during data extraction
Posted: Nov 5, 2004 4:34 PM      Reply      E-mail this post 
 

Hi,
I tried:
data : CR type x value ‘0D’,
NL type x value ‘0A’.
REPLACE ALL OCCURRENCES OF CR IN ZTEST001_ITAB-DESCTXZ01 WITH ”.

I am getting eror : X must be a character-type data object(data type C,N,D,T OR string).

ZTEST001_ITAB-DESCTXZ01 is like ekpo-txz01.

Thanks,

Vasu
 

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 Re: Removing the carriage return / Tab during data extraction  
Posted: Nov 5, 2004 4:51 PM      Reply      E-mail this post 
 

Field CR has to be type character if you want to use replace. Try finding out the character representation of that newline in your string as per in my previous reply.
 

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 Re: Removing the carriage return / Tab during data extraction
Posted: Nov 5, 2004 4:51 PM      Reply      E-mail this post 
 

Hi ,
What i see is like this:

k####AC##3

6B232323234143232333202020202020202020202020202020202020202020202020202020202020

So it is 23 . How can we remove this.

Thanks,

VAsu
 

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 Re: Removing the carriage return / Tab during data extraction
Posted: Nov 5, 2004 5:18 PM      Reply      E-mail this post 
 

HI,
I am giving the values:
cl_abap_char_utilities=>horizontal_tab — 09
cl_abap_char_utilities=>CR_LF ———- 0D0A
cl_abap_char_utilities=>VERTICAL_TAB — 0B
cl_abap_char_utilities=>NEWLINE —- 0A
cl_abap_char_utilities=>FORM_FEED —- 0C
cl_abap_char_utilities=>BACKSPACE — 08