Read text(Continuous text editor) purchase order M22/23N

[Former Member]

Hello,

I have following situation .

User is copy pasting the text in the item text of the purchase order. Display looks perfectly ok but when we try to read  the text using FM 'READ_TEXT' some character are appearing as ‘# ‘. Ex in the editor the text “ 2 – 10’ adbcefghijk “ looks good but when your read it using FM we get following text “ 2 # 10 # adbcefghijk “.  ie character like “ –‘ “ are replaced by # .

I Tried  converting it to ascii binary format using CONVERT_ITF_TO_ASCII and SCMS_BINARY_TO_XSTRING,also tried FM CONVERT_ITF_TO_RTF and mehtod GET_TEXT_AS_STREAM of calss cl_gui_textedit . It did not works.

How to retrieve the text exactly as it appear in the sap screen. If we can see  text in editor, there should be a way to read what we see.

Note : It works perfectly when I type in manually. issue is only when we copy.

Appreciate your valuable suggestion  .

Thank you.

[Former Member]

Hello Ravi

Probably some carriage return/line feed is being copied into the screen when the user copies the text.

Try replacing the CR/LF after using READ_TEXT. You can use the constant cl_abap_char_utilities=>cr_lf  to replace the text.

Regards

Luis Becker

[Former Member]

Thank you Luis for your response.

I do not think it is related to carriage return/line feed. You can
try typing in text in ms-word and copy the text into ME21/22N item text  and in a program try reading it with READ_TEXT. For example try  text   “ Test 10’ – 10‘ pipe and  10”X20” sheets.”

Thank you.

[Former Member]

Hello Ravi

I did a test here and I couldn't reproduce the error. However, in other editors, like ABAP text editors, I've seen tabs converted to #.

So I'd give you two suggestions:

1)  Try replacing another special characters, like cl_abap_char_utilities=>horizontal_tab

2) Go to Word and activate "paragraph marks" to see which special characters are being introduced without noticing.

Regards

Luis Becker

[raymond_giuseppi]

Are you working in a Unicode environment, and a non-Unicode SAP, then text is converting during initial save and reading it later, you don't recognize it?

Hint: look for OSS notes for your system version (Try keywords as READ_TEXT and special characters) - which version, Unicode ?

Regards,

Raymond

[former_member7555]

Recently we faced the similar kind of issue but instead of replacing in all places it has always displayed with a * in the first character of each line , We have rectified by replacing * with '' and appended to another internal table .

It might be a wrong way but we didn't find any other replacing class / FM for the same.

[peng_wen]

Hello,

Maybe it is a carriage return.

You can goto debug mode of FM 'READ_TEXT':

Source code of   LSTXDFDB
FORM READ_TEXTLINES
...Code:

PERFORM READ_TEXTLINES TABLES LINES

if rt_header-tdtexttype is initial.              "SAPscript format
   import tline to rt_lines      ->set variable "RT_LINES"
     from database stxl(tx)        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
          client   rt_client
          id       stxl_id
          ACCEPTING TRUNCATION                     "important for Unicod
          IGNORING CONVERSION ERRORS.
else.

Here set "RT_LINES" as a variable, the click 'Status' icon, see if the
character is displayed as '#' and what is the hex value for this.

Regards,
Wen Peng

[Former Member]

This message was moderated.

[Former Member]

Luis,

I tried your suggestions it did not work, there are no tabor carriage return.  I am sure you will realize the issue if you try with the example text I gave you. Especially when you copy
ms-word text which has special character like single quote, semi colon, double quotes,
underscore, hyphens  etc.( -, ‘,  “,- ).

Raymond,

I have looked at OSS  notes nothing is close to working . we are in the SAP_BASIS 702 SP 12.Sap note 2014034 is some what related to my situation but I already
tried using the FM CONVERT_ITF_TO_ASCII without success.

Hamsitha, 

Can you please elaborate I did not understand your suggestion.

Wen Peng,

Your suggestion looks promising I will try that. Do you know any FM or class that can convert hexdec to text and vic-versa.

Issue is only when we  copy ms-word text which has special character like
single quote, semi colon, double quotes, underscore, hyphens etc ( -, ‘,  “,_ ). I understand that special character representation in SAP and ms-word are different . But in sap continues text editor show exactly as in ms-word. Question is how to read or print what we see?

Thank you all for spending time on this.

[Former Member]

Hello,

I think I am close I just need to convert hexdecimal Xstring into text.   I have valid hexadecimal string which I was able to convert it to string/text using online string conversion website all I need is to do same thing in SAP.

I tried using many FM like HR_RU_CONVERT_HEX_TO_STRING,HR_KR_XSTRING_TO_STRING and class   cl_abap_conv_x2x_ce and cl_abap_conv_in_ce with input code page as UFF-8(4110)  and output as 1100 and vice-versa.nothing works .

anyone know how to convert hexdecimal to string/text?

Wen Peng,In debug it reads as #(hexdec value  92) so that do not help much. 

Thank you

[former_member7555]

Hi,

Did you try the FM   STPU1_HEX_TO_CHAR

for hex to char conversion.

Thanks.

[Former Member]

Hamsitha,

I have already tried FM STPU1_HEX_TO_CHAR  without any success.

Thank you.