How to display special character in ABAP report program.

[former_member230666]

Hi Experts,

I have an issue with displaying special characters in ABAP ALV report program. The text supposed to be displayed in the ALV is "Testing-#testing PO" but it is displayed as "Testing- testing PO". The special character "#" is missing and there is a space in between. Can you please advise me? Or is this a standard problem in SAP ALV Report? Is this an unicode issue? I tried to search for solutions via google but not successful.  Please help..

[PeterJonker]

It is not a standard ALV problem, because I just created a testreport where I concatenate -# into fields and it dispalys w/o any problem.

What is the datatype of the field where this values are in ?

[former_member230666]

Hi Peter,

Thanks for your reply. In the ABAP program, it is declared as string. I used the below standard function call to display the ALV. It still display as blank in between. Not sure if i need to add any codes to this?

CALL METHOD cl_salv_table=>factory

         IMPORTING

           r_salv_table = alv_table

         CHANGING

           t_table      = lt_output.

[PeterJonker]

I used EXACTLY the same and it is working. Are you sure (debug) the special character is there in lt_output when you call the factory method ?

[former_member230666]

Hi Peter,

When i debug, the character "#" is in the internal table. This internal table is then pass into the method to call the ALV. When the ALV report was displayed, the "#" is missing and displayed as "Testing-testing PO". This is very weird and cannot understand why this happens.

[Former Member]

Hi,

As mentioned in my last reply, please check the hex value when you in debug mode, when you see a # in any string value while debug, it is not always a #, as SAP will convert some invisible character into # for display, and the debugger is one of the UI will do this conversion.

Do a test when you in debug mode by edit the problematic value by adding some # at the end and see the result.

Regards

Bill

[PeterJonker]

Did you read the question of Chie Bill ? Please answer this as well.

The question is: Is this special character actually in the string (did you place it there) or is it a representation of a hex value in debug ?

[Former Member]

Hi,

Did you tried to go into debug mode and check the HEX value of the character? (It should be Hex 23)

As far as I know, some UI in sap (e.g. SE16 standard list) will convert some invisible character (e.g. new line) into # but ALV will just show it as a space.

Regards

Bill

[former_member241258]

hi

see below code will help.

REPORT ZDEMO2.

TYPE-POOLS:SLIS.

TYPES:BEGIN OF TY_FINAL,
        VALUE TYPE C LENGTH 50,
       END OF TY_FINAL,
       TT_FINAL TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF TY_FINAL.

DATA:LT_FIELDCAT TYPE SLIS_T_FIELDCAT_ALV,
      LS_FIELDCAT TYPE SLIS_FIELDCAT_ALV.


DATA:GT_FINAL TYPE TT_FINAL,
      GS_FINAL TYPE TY_FINAL.


START-OF-SELECTION.


CLEAR GS_FINAL.
GS_FINAL-VALUE = 'Testing-#testing PO'.
APPEND GS_FINAL TO GT_FINAL.

CLEAR LS_FIELDCAT.
LS_FIELDCAT-FIELDNAME = 'VALUE'.
LS_FIELDCAT-SELTEXT_L = 'VALUE'.
APPEND LS_FIELDCAT TO LT_FIELDCAT.

CALL FUNCTION 'REUSE_ALV_GRID_DISPLAY'
  EXPORTING
    I_CALLBACK_PROGRAM                = SY-REPID
    IT_FIELDCAT                       = LT_FIELDCAT
  TABLES
    T_OUTTAB                          = GT_FINAL
  EXCEPTIONS
    PROGRAM_ERROR                     = 1
    OTHERS                            = 2.

this is not suitable, then send ur report source code.

i will modify and send u.