CSV format delete/remove space

Hi Friends,
I am facing a problem. I am UP LOADING data into CSV format. After upload file if i see into the file i am getting spaces in right side of the value. How can i remove the spaces or how the value move to right side of the colomn.
Regards,
Kumar

Hi Rob,
Concatenate all your ITAB in to another itab.and send to function module.
ex: loop at itab into wa_itab.
     concatenate wa_itab-f1 wa_itab-f2 wa_itab-f3 wa_itab-f4 ...
      into wa_itab2.
     append itab2 from wa_itab2.
     endloop.
pass itab2 to function module.
i hope this will solve your problem.

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Shift v_str by 1 places right.
Please try this.
Thanking you,
Jerry

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Sorry for asking a very simple (hopefully) question. Does anyone know how can remove spaces from a given field. One of my field has the following:
field1 = ' ABCD'.
What command should I use so field1 would end up with just 'ABCD'?
Thanks.

Hi SS
General templates for doing such operations on strings:
SHIFT <c> LEFT DELETING LEADING <str>.
SHIFT <c> RIGHT DELETING TRAILING <str>.
where str can be SPACE or something like e.g: 'abc'
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Ashish

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