Eliminate Tab spaces in Customer Text

Question

Hi SAP Gurus,
I have a requirement.
In Smartforms/Script I pull Text from SD Invoice at header level. This text is getting copied from Customer master into Invoice. In Customer master if user enter text along with the spaces or Tabs, It disturbs the Billing output layout. Text doesn't print properly on output. Is there any code available to avoid spaces or tabs in Text so that Text can print accurately.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Hi naveen,
CONDENSE
Basic form
CONDENSE c.
Addition
... NO-GAPS
Effect
Shifts the contents of the field c to the left, so that each word is separated by exactly one blank.
Example
DATA: BEGIN OF NAME,
TITLE(8), VALUE 'Dr.',
FIRST_NAME(10), VALUE 'Michael',
SURNAME(10), VALUE 'Hofmann',
END OF NAME.
CONDENSE NAME.
WRITE NAME.
produces the output:
Dr. Michael Hofmann
Addition
... NO-GAPS
Effect
Suppresses all blanks from the field c
Example
DATA: BEGIN OF NAME,
TITLE(8), VALUE 'Dr.',
FIRST_NAME(10), VALUE 'Michael',
SURNAME(10), VALUE 'Hofmann',
END OF NAME.
CONDENSE NAME NO-GAPS.
The contents of NAME is now " Dr.MichaelHofmann ".
Since the field string NAME is interpreted and handled like a type C field, the CONDENSE statement treats it as a whole and ignores any sub-fields. The contents of the component field would therefore now be as follows:
NAME-TITLE = 'Dr.Micha'
NAME-FIRST_NAME = 'elHofmann '
NAME-SURNAME = ' '
Note
Performance
The runtime required to condense three fields is about 20 msn (standardized micooseconds). The variant ... NO-GAPS needs about 12 msn.
Regards,
Anand