Special Character in ABAP

[Former Member]

Hello,

I can't remember how to use specials characters in ABAP, for example if I want to put a tab in a string.

Can someone help me ?

Thanks,

Benoî

[former_member188685]

Hi

<b>SPACE</b> is the Special character name.

concatenate 'ABC' 'DEF' into str separated by <b>space</b>.

regards

vijay

[eddy_declercq]

Hi,

You use cl_abap_char_utilities=>HORIZONTAL_TAB for this.

Eddy

[Former Member]

Thanks but I need the old fashion

For 4.6C in fact

[Former Member]

Hi,

I dont know how much this helps you but in ABAP Editor (SE38), TAB moves 2 spaces...

May be you can try inserting two spaces (which I think are equivalent of a TAB) in your string..

In 4.6c ofcourse..

Sri

Message was edited by: Srikanth Pinnamaneni

[abdul_hakim]

Hi,

In SAPScript you can use tab character but in normal report transaction you cannot.You may use SPACE for getting spaces..

Regards,

Abdul

[christian_wohlfahrt]

Hi Benoît!

Then you are probably not in an unicode system, so you can make a trick with a structure:

DATA: BEGIN OF tab_struc,
        field TYPE x,
      END OF tab_struc,
      tab TYPE char1.
tab_struc-field = 23.

Now you can assign to the hexadecimal field any code, which is for tab maybe 11 - just try out some values below 27. Later you just use the structure tab_struc, but without specifying the field -> you get a conversion into char without changes of value, that is as much as a tab or bell or linefeed.

Regards,

Christian