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Concatenating strings with trailing spaces

Posted on May 10, 2004 at 09:17 AM 665 Views

Hi,

can somebody advise me of how to concatenate strings so that trailing space is not ignored? For example I have two variabvles 'ABC ' and 'XYZ ' I need the result to be 'ABC XYZ '. By default trailing spaces are removed, how to retain them?

thanks,

erki

ABAP Development SAP Business One SAP Process Integration Security
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  • author's profile photo Dirk Altmann
    Dirk Altmann
    Posted on May 10, 2004 at 09:48 AM

    Hi Erki,

    see the docu, this is the example from the docu:

    Examples DATA: ONE(10) VALUE 'John',

    TWO(3) VALUE 'F.',

    THREE(10) VALUE 'Kennedy',

    NAME(20).

    CONCATENATE ONE TWO THREE INTO NAME SEPARATED BY SPACE.

    Then, NAME has the value "John F. Kennedy".

    Regards,

    Dirk

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    Posted on May 11, 2004 at 02:30 PM

    You can also achieve the result you require with a deep data structure. Either group your elements in the order in which they should be concatenated or move the data into the elements into a separate structure. To access the concatenated result, use the higher level data name:

    report z_jac_test.

    data: begin of concat,

    element1(4) value 'ABC ',

    element2(4) value 'DEF ',

    end of concat.

    write: / '[' no-gap, concat no-gap, ']' no-gap.

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  • author's profile photo Brian McKellar
    Brian McKellar
    Posted on Jun 12, 2004 at 11:06 AM

    There is a much easier way.

    CONCATENATE `abc ` 'xyz' INTO target.

    Using the `` form will keep trailing space characters!

    ++bcm

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    • Former Member Dirk Altmann
      Jun 22, 2004 at 04:04 PM

      The backquote ` is used to delimit a STRING literal whereas the single quote ' is used to delimit a text field literal.

      The string literals retain any trailing spaces, the text literals do not.

      But the STRING type was not available in 3.1I and therefore this method won't work for you :o(

      Cheers,

      John