Trailing spaces after data

[former_member215781]

Hi,

I have a requirement in my code where I need to keep trailing spaces after the value.

Say, the value is ABC with 2 spaces before ABC and 4 spaces after ABC.

' ABC '

I want to remove the spaces before ABC but want the spaces that exist after ABC.

Thanks,

Sim

[Former Member]

Hi,

As per as ABAP goes simple Assignment operator or TRANSFER (to file) to truncate the spaces.

refer [this|; or you may need to WRITE EOL character Cl_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES=>CR_LF.

Hope this helps!

Regards

Shital

[Former Member]

Hi,

Refer [Link|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/79/c554d9b3dc11d5993800508b6b8b11/content.htm] on how to use CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES=>CR_LF (CRLF Carrige Return + Line Feed). You have to write CRLF at the end of your string to retain the trailing spaces.

Regards

Shital

[Former Member]

Hi SIm,

Check this example for leading spaces --

SHIFT c BY n PLACES.

This command Shifts the contents of c by n places to the left. This statement has the same semantics as repeating the simple SHIFT statement n times.

Example

DATA: ALPHA1(10) TYPE C VALUE 'ABCDEFGHIJ',

ALPHA2 TYPE STRING,

FIVE TYPE I VALUE 5.

ALPHA2 = ALPHA1.

SHIFT ALPHA1 BY FIVE PLACES.

SHIFT ALPHA2 RIGHT BY 2 PLACES.

ALPHA1 now has the contents 'FGHIJ____ ' and ALPHA2 the contents '__ABCDEFGHIJ'.

To delete the spaces before

SHIFT c LEFT DELETING LEADING space.

Regards,

Pankaj

Edited by: Pankaj Singh on May 16, 2009 11:32 AM

[Former Member]

Hi,

You can use SHIFT statement.

data: v_var type char6 value ' ABC '

SHIFT v_var LEFT DELETING LEADING space.

write:/ v_var.

Output will be ABC .

Regards,

Nikhil

[former_member215781]

How do I remove both leading and training spaces from a statement. SHIFT LEFT is working fine....but SHIFT w_sameena LEFT DELETING LEADING '*' does not seem to work in my code.

The field value is ***ABCCDE*FGHI**JKL****

and I want the o/p as ABC*CDE*FGHI***JKL

Regards,

Sameena