An SAP Consultant: SAP ABAP - CL_ABAP_CHAR

CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES class use

The components of this class are utilities for the processing of characters. The components of this class are all static and public.When you are working with different file type( specially Excel , text ) in SAP and you need to insert any special char like line feed , horizontal tab , vertical tab, page break etc. you can check these chars in class CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES in attributes.

CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES->HORIZONTAL_TAB attribute:

Tab character as delimiter in ABAP string.

REPORT ZTEST_PROGRAM.
DATA: BEGIN OF IT_FILE OCCURS 0,
        STR TYPE STRING,
      END OF IT_FILE.
"Tab delimited records
CONCATENATE 'Sachin'   'Dravid' 'Kumble' 'Ganguly'  INTO IT_FILE-STR SEPARATED BY CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES=>HORIZONTAL_TAB.
APPEND IT_FILE.CLEAR  IT_FILE.
CONCATENATE 'MS Dhoni' 'Kohli'  'Rohith' 'R.Jadeja' INTO IT_FILE-STR SEPARATED BY CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES=>HORIZONTAL_TAB.
APPEND IT_FILE.CLEAR  IT_FILE.

CALL FUNCTION 'GUI_DOWNLOAD'
  EXPORTING
    FILENAME = 'C:\test01.txt'
  TABLES
    DATA_TAB = IT_FILE.
IF SY-SUBRC <> 0.
  WRITE 'Error while writing'.
ENDIF.

CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES->CR_LF attribute:

Carriage Return and Line Feed.

REPORT ZTEST_PROGRAM.
DATA: BEGIN OF IT_FILE OCCURS 0,
        STR TYPE STRING,
      END OF IT_FILE.
DATA:LV_STRING TYPE STRING.
"Lines separated by horizontal tab
CONCATENATE 'Sachin'   'Dravid' 'Kumble' 'Ganguly'  INTO IT_FILE-STR SEPARATED BY CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES=>HORIZONTAL_TAB.
APPEND IT_FILE.CLEAR  IT_FILE.
CONCATENATE 'MS Dhoni' 'Kohli'  'Rohith' 'R.Jadeja' INTO IT_FILE-STR SEPARATED BY CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES=>HORIZONTAL_TAB.
APPEND IT_FILE.CLEAR  IT_FILE.

"Internal tables records into single string variables using CR_LF attribute.
LOOP AT IT_FILE.
  CONCATENATE LV_STRING IT_FILE-STR CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES=>CR_LF INTO LV_STRING.
ENDLOOP.
DATA LT_STRING TYPE TABLE OF STRING.
APPEND LV_STRING TO LT_STRING.
"Download table
CALL FUNCTION 'GUI_DOWNLOAD'
  EXPORTING
    FILENAME = 'C:\test02.txt'
  TABLES
    DATA_TAB = LT_STRING.
IF SY-SUBRC <> 0.
  WRITE 'Error while writing'.
ENDIF.

CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES->NEW_LINE attribute:

New line

REPORT ZTEST_PROGRAM.
DATA: BEGIN OF IT_FILE OCCURS 0,
        STR TYPE STRING,
      END OF IT_FILE.
DATA:LV_STRING TYPE STRING.
"Lines separated by horizontal tab
CONCATENATE 'Sachin'   'Dravid' 'Kumble' 'Ganguly'  INTO IT_FILE-STR SEPARATED BY CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES=>HORIZONTAL_TAB.
APPEND IT_FILE.CLEAR  IT_FILE.
CONCATENATE 'MS Dhoni' 'Kohli'  'Rohith' 'R.Jadeja' INTO IT_FILE-STR SEPARATED BY CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES=>HORIZONTAL_TAB.
APPEND IT_FILE.CLEAR  IT_FILE.

"converting string table to string
LOOP AT IT_FILE.
  IF SY-TABIX = 1.
    LV_STRING = IT_FILE-STR.
  ELSE.
    CONCATENATE LV_STRING IT_FILE-STR INTO LV_STRING SEPARATED BY CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES=>NEWLINE.
  ENDIF.
ENDLOOP.

DATA LT_STRING TYPE TABLE OF STRING.
APPEND LV_STRING TO LT_STRING.
"Download table
CALL FUNCTION 'GUI_DOWNLOAD'
  EXPORTING
    FILENAME = 'C:\test03.txt'
  TABLES
    DATA_TAB = LT_STRING.
IF SY-SUBRC <> 0.
  WRITE 'Error while writing'.
ENDIF.

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