Removal of TABS from File Upload

Question

Hi all,
I made an upload of a local file with TAB spaces in an internal table .I am required to remove the TABs from the records.I tried to used command REPLACE '/h' by single space, where '/h' being the TAB , but it did not work.
How can I achieve the requirement?
Your ideas are appreciated
Thanks,
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Answer 1

first you wil call GUI_UPLOAD in normal way.
<b>if you are in UNICODE system,</b>
CLASS CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES DEFINITION LOAD.
CONSTANTS: X_DELIM  TYPE C VALUE CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES=>HORIZONTAL_TAB.
this X_DELIM is to store HORIZANTAL TAB value.
<b>if you are in a NON UNICODE SYSTEM,</b>
you can use,
data X_DELIM type x value '09'.
  CALL FUNCTION 'GUI_UPLOAD'
    EXPORTING
      FILENAME                = V_FNAME
      FILETYPE                = 'ASC'
    TABLES
      DATA_TAB                = IT_READFILE
    EXCEPTIONS
      FILE_OPEN_ERROR         = 1
      FILE_READ_ERROR         = 2
      NO_BATCH                = 3
      GUI_REFUSE_FILETRANSFER = 4
      INVALID_TYPE            = 5
      NO_AUTHORITY            = 6
      UNKNOWN_ERROR           = 7
      BAD_DATA_FORMAT         = 8
      HEADER_NOT_ALLOWED      = 9
      SEPARATOR_NOT_ALLOWED   = 10
      HEADER_TOO_LONG         = 11
      UNKNOWN_DP_ERROR        = 12
      ACCESS_DENIED           = 13
      DP_OUT_OF_MEMORY        = 14
      DISK_FULL               = 15
      DP_TIMEOUT              = 16
      OTHERS                  = 17.
  IF SY-SUBRC <> 0.
    MESSAGE ID SY-MSGID TYPE SY-MSGTY NUMBER SY-MSGNO
            WITH SY-MSGV1 SY-MSGV2 SY-MSGV3 SY-MSGV4.
    EXIT.
  ENDIF.
*--Delete any Empty lines in the input file,if any
  DELETE IT_READFILE WHERE LINE IS INITIAL.
  LOOP AT IT_READFILE INTO X_READFILE.
    SPLIT X_READFILE-LINE AT X_DELIM
                        INTO  X_INPUTFILE-F1
                             X_INPUTFILE-F2
                            X_INPUTFILE-F3.
    APPEND X_INPUTFILE TO IT_INPUTFILE.
    CLEAR X_INPUTFILE.
  ENDLOOP.
HERE IT_INPUTFILE IS the internal table with your fields.
IT_READFILE IS a character type internal table
data : BEGIN OF IT_READFILE occurs 0,
          LINE(1000) TYPE C,
        END OF IT_READFILE.
or you can put HAS_FIELD_SEPERATOR = 'X' in calling the above function module.
Regards
Srikanth
Message was edited by: Srikanth Kidambi