Fixed Length Strings.

Hi ,
   I have to download a longtext from SAP.
   The length of the longtext has to be fixed 5000 ie...Even if the length of the longtext from SAP is 1000 remaining 4000 spaces should get appended.
I am moving the long text into a variable l_line which I have declared in the following way L_LINE(5000).
   But after moving the longtext into this variable it still shows the actual length of the longtext whereas I need 5000 fixed length.
How to solve it.
Thanks,

Hi Renu Raj,
Just WRITE the LONG TEXT again in to the variable with RIGHT
JUSTIFIED. It will prefixes SPACEs and STRLEN will return 5000.
i.e. as follows,
WRITE : L_LINE TO L_LINE RIGHT-JUSTIFIED.
CNT_LEN = STRLEN( L_LINE ).
Now the CNT_LEn will have '5000'.
While you process the LONG TEXT, just CONDENSE it and go ahead. It will remove LEADING SPACEs.
i.e. as follows,
CONDENSE L_LINE.
CNT_LEN = STRLEN( L_LINE ).
Now CNT_LEN will have an actual length.
Regards,
R.Nagarajan.
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               <element name="emp" type="string" nxsd:style="terminated" nxsd:terminatedBy="${eol}"/>
          </sequence>
     </complexType>
</schema>When I run the process I get the following output and that is not correct as the first character is also being shown in the output as opposed to be skipped as it is the record type and the output should start from second character.
output
<SMP>
<smpRecords>
<data1>12</data1>
<data2>345</data2>
<emp>6 </emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>96</data1>
<data2>037</data2>
<emp>3 </emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>A16</data1>
<data2>027</data2>
<emp>10542583</emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>76</data1>
<data2>027</data2>
<emp>10542583</emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>16</data1>
<data2>027</data2>
<emp>50499275</emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>46</data1>
<data2>027</data2>
<emp>50499275</emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>16</data1>
<data2>027</data2>
<emp>50529800</emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>76</data1>
<data2>027</data2>
<emp>50529800</emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>16</data1>
<data2>030</data2>
<emp>30507732</emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>76</data1>
<data2>030</data2>
<emp>30507732</emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>16</data1>
<data2>030</data2>
<emp>30509055</emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>76</data1>
<data2>030</data2>
<emp>30509055</emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>16</data1>
<data2>030</data2>
<emp>30509229</emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>76</data1>
<data2>030</data2>
<emp>30509229</emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>26</data1>
<data2>036</data2>
<emp>00556240</emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>06</data1>
<data2>036</data2>
<emp>00566095</emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>26</data1>
<data2>036</data2>
<emp>00567460</emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>36</data1>
<data2>033</data2>
<emp>10536370</emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>56</data1>
<data2>033</data2>
<emp>10525810</emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>36</data1>
<data2>033</data2>
<emp>10531092</emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>36</data1>
<data2>033</data2>
<emp>10521842</emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>06</data1>
<data2>033</data2>
<emp>10521842</emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>36</data1>
<data2>033</data2>
<emp>10521842</emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>36</data1>
<data2>033</data2>
<emp>10521842</emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>86</data1>
<data2>020</data2>
<emp>1450SA A</emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>56</data1>
<data2>020</data2>
<emp>1451SA A</emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>56</data1>
<data2>020</data2>
<emp>1452SA A</emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>56</data1>
<data2>020</data2>
<emp>1453SAN </emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>16</data1>
<data2>036</data2>
<emp>30565355</emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>76</data1>
<data2>036</data2>
<emp>30565355</emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>16</data1>
<data2>036</data2>
<emp>30565500</emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>76</data1>
<data2>036</data2>
<emp>30565500</emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>96</data1>
<data2>034</data2>
<emp>60539390</emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>26</data1>
<data2>034</data2>
<emp>60535260</emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>36</data1>
<data2>037</data2>
<emp>90509870</emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>56</data1>
<data2>020</data2>
<emp>0401ABIL</emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>66</data1>
<data2>037</data2>
<emp>2TX066 </emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>66</data1>
<data2>037</data2>
<emp>3TX015 </emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>66</data1>
<data2>037</data2>
<emp>3TX01531</emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>66</data1>
<data2>037</data2>
<emp>3TX01532</emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>86</data1>
<data2>037</data2>
<emp>3TX066 </emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>66</data1>
<data2>037</data2>
<emp>3TX068 </emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>36</data1>
<data2>037</data2>
<emp>3TX09465</emp>
</smpRecords>
<smpRecords>
<data1>66</data1>
<data2>037</data2>
<emp>3TX09471</emp>
</smpRecords>
</SMP>As the output for the very first row comes up fine i.e. 0123456
for this the output is
<smpRecords>
<data1>12</data1>
<data2>345</data2>
<emp>6 </emp>
</smpRecords>But for all the rest it keeps adding the first character too i.e. 960373
for this the output is wrong
<smpRecords>
<data1>96</data1>
<data2>037</data2>
<emp>3 </emp>
</smpRecords>as the correct output should be:
<smpRecords>
<data1>60</data1>
<data2>373</data2>
<emp/>
</smpRecords>Any idea what I am doing wrong or how I can fix the schema. Also if I add any character other than 0....9 for the first character it still picks up the record i.e. A602710542583
as it should only process records starting with 0....9
Thanks

I tried using transformation to check if the starting 2 chars are 56 then output else continue but the ourput is blank even though I have multiple records that start with 56. Here is the xsl I have
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<?oracle-xsl-mapper

<mapSources>
    <source type="XSD">
      <schema location="test2.xsd"/>
      <rootElement name="SMP" namespace="http://xmlns.oracle.com/pcbpel/tstSchema/SMP"/>
    </source>
</mapSources>
<mapTargets>
    <target type="XSD">
      <schema location="test2.xsd"/>
      <rootElement name="SMP" namespace="http://xmlns.oracle.com/pcbpel/tstSchema/SMP"/>
    </target>
</mapTargets>

?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:ldap="http://schemas.oracle.com/xpath/extension/ldap" xmlns:xp20="http://www.oracle.com/XSL/Transform/java/oracle.tip.pc.services.functions.Xpath20" xmlns:bpws="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2003/03/business-process/" xmlns:tns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/pcbpel/tstSchema/SMP" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:ora="http://schemas.oracle.com/xpath/extension" xmlns:ns0="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:orcl="http://www.oracle.com/XSL/Transform/java/oracle.tip.pc.services.functions.ExtFunc" xmlns:nxsd="http://xmlns.oracle.com/pcbpel/nxsd" exclude-result-prefixes="xsl tns ns0 nxsd ldap xp20 bpws ora orcl">
<xsl:template match="/">
    <tns:SMP>
      <xsl:for-each select="/tns:SMP/tns:smpRecords">
        <xsl:if test="tns:data1 = '56'">
          <tns:smpRecords>
            <tns:data1>
              <xsl:value-of select="tns:data1"/>
            </tns:data1>
            <tns:data2>
              <xsl:value-of select="tns:data2"/>
            </tns:data2>
            <tns:emp>
              <xsl:value-of select="tns:emp"/>
            </tns:emp>
          </tns:smpRecords>
        </xsl:if>
      </xsl:for-each>
    </tns:SMP>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>and here is the out I get
<part   name="SMP" >
<SMP/>
</part>Any ideas what might be wrong in the xsl itself.
Thanks

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