Formatting a tab delimited file

Hello All,
I am populating a tab delimited text file with data from a resultset and I'm having problems lining up the columns properly. I tried using tabs, but the variable length of some of the entries are messing up the positioning of the data. Is there a way to create tab delimited fixed length fields with column headers? or is there some better way to do this in general?
Thanks,
James

I got it working using StringBuffers. Where I missed it was that the formatting of the text of the report originally didn't work under the
code. It was being automatically formatted when it was passed as a message in an email under javamail. I had forgotten that Outlook will do that on it's own. When I tried to make the report an attachment, the defect in the formatting became apparent.
I also got it working (better solution) using POI. That way the attachment is an .xls file, rather than tab-delimited file.
FYI,
James

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EXPORTING
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                                               wa_adrc_2-langu
                                               wa_adrc_2-region
                                               wa_adrc_2-sort1
                                               wa_adrc_2-sort2
                                               wa_adrc_2-deflt_comm
                                               wa_adrc_2-tel_number
                                               wa_adrc_2-tel_extens
                                               wa_adrc_2-fax_number
                                               wa_adrc_2-fax_extens
                                               wa_adrc_2-taxjurcode.
WA_FILE-DATA is having below values
##K#U#N#N#R###T#I#T#L#E###N#A#M#E#1###N#A#M#E#2###N#A#M#E#3###N#A#M#E#4###S#O#R#T#1###S#O#R#T#2###N#A#M#E#_#C#O###S#T#R#_#S#U#P#P#L#1###S#T#R#_#S#U#P#P#L#2###S#T#R#E#E#T###H#O#U#S#E#_#N#U#M#1
And this is split by tab delimited and moved to other variables as shown above.
Please guide me how to read the contents without "#' from the file.
I have tried all possible ways and unable to get solution.
Thanks,
Shrikanth

Hi ,
In ECC 6 if all the unicode patches are applied then UTF 16 will defintly work..
More over i would suggest you to ist replace # with some other * or , and then try to see in debugging if any further # appears..
and no # appears then try to split now.
if even now the # appears after replace statement then try to find out what exactly is it... wheather it is a horizantal tab etc....
and then again try to replace it and then split..
Please follow the process untill all the # are replaced...
This should work for you..
Let me know if you further face any issue...
Regards
Satish Boguda

GUI_Download problem in tab delimited file

Hi,
I am trying to download tab delimited file using F.M GUI_DOWNLOAD.We have
4.6C version.I have declared internal table with 5 columns.The file created using F.M is very strange.Column 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 are seaprated by tab but column 2
and 3 and column 4 and 5 are not seaprated by tab but have fixed length.
I am not getting where I am doing mistake.Any help is appericiated.
Below is the structure of internal table.
DATA:BEGIN OF IT_FINAL OCCURS 0,
       Company(3) type c,
       County(30) type c,
       FId(35) type c,
       Wellno(15) type c,
       Welldesc(35) type c,
     END OF IT_FINAL.
Data populated in table it_final.
it_final-Company = '300'.
it_final-County = 'Greenwood'.
it_final-fid = 'testts'.
it_final-wellno = '10000000'.
it_final-welldesc = 'tebsbvd'.
append it_final.
F.M GUI_DOWNLOAD
CALL FUNCTION 'GUI_DOWNLOAD'
    EXPORTING
    BIN_FILESIZE                  =
      filename                      = l_path
    FILETYPE                      = 'ASC'
    APPEND                        = ' '
      write_field_separator         = 'X'
    HEADER                        = '00'
    TRUNC_TRAILING_BLANKS         = ' '
    WRITE_LF                      = 'X'
    COL_SELECT                    = ' '
    COL_SELECT_MASK               = ' '
    DAT_MODE                      = ' '
IMPORTING
    FILELENGTH                    =
    TABLES
      data_tab                      = it_final
     EXCEPTIONS
     file_write_error              = 1
     no_batch                      = 2
     gui_refuse_filetransfer       = 3
     invalid_type                  = 4
     no_authority                  = 5
     unknown_error                 = 6
     header_not_allowed            = 7
     separator_not_allowed         = 8
     filesize_not_allowed          = 9
     header_too_long               = 10
     dp_error_create               = 11
     dp_error_send                 = 12
     dp_error_write                = 13
     unknown_dp_error              = 14
     access_denied                 = 15
     dp_out_of_memory              = 16
     disk_full                     = 17
     dp_timeout                    = 18
     file_not_found                = 19
     dataprovider_exception        = 20
     control_flush_error           = 21
     OTHERS                        = 22
Thanks,
Rekha.

Hi,
i think it is because tou need to uncomment:
     FILETYPE                      = 'ASC'
try it.
Best regards.

Tab Delimited File?

Hi All,
I am trying to create a tab delimited file using Sender File adapter using File content Conversion in Adapter Module. I want a constant space beteween the fields of length 8 spaces. When i use ' ' as field seperater , the file that is generated is 19' 'Stringtest14,Hiring' '09/03/2007' 'Managing Dir, Operations. I want the file without colons i.e 19 Stringtest14,Hiring' 09/03/2007 Managing Dir, Operations.
Please Advice...
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XIer

Hi Xler
content conversion parameters ,, just like
Recordset structure = DT_PRY,*
DT_PRY.fieldnames = ID,empname,empno,country
DT_PRY.fieldSeparator = '0x09' (tab delimited)
DT_PRY.endSeparator = 'nl'

The FCC...
Document Name : MT_PRY
Document Namespace : http://product.com/prvsoup
Recordset Name : recordset
Recordset structure = DT_PRY,*
DT_PRY.fieldnames = ID,empname,empno,country
DT_PRY.fieldSeparator = '0x09'
DT_PRY.endSeparator = 'nl'
ignoreRecordsetName = true
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/14/80243b4a66ae0ce10000000a11402f/frameset.htm
can take the help of this blog
/people/shabarish.vijayakumar/blog/2005/08/17/nab-the-tab-file-adapter
Conversion agent
/people/william.li/blog/2006/03/17/how-to-get-started-using-conversion-agent-from-itemfield
/people/paul.medaille/blog/2005/11/18/conversion-agent-a-free-lunch
/people/alexander.bundschuh/blog/2006/03/14/integrate-sap-conversion-agent-by-itemfield-with-sap-xi
/people/paul.medaille/blog/2005/11/17/more-on-the-sap-conversion-agent-by-itemfield
Thanks!
Questions are welcome here!!
Also mark helpful answers by rewarding points
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Good evening.
I am using Adobe Acrobat XI Pro
I have been working all weekend so far on this, and have tried many options.
What I am wanting is to import a line of data from an excel file into a form, save the file with a name drived from the form fields, close the new file, then go back to the original file, import a line of data, and so on and so on.
I had all of this working in livecyle with a tool, but now that we are going to Windows 8 and Microsoft Office 2013, the driver that I need to load the excel file into the form is not available--so now I have to redo the forms in Adobe and import using a tab delimited file.
I would like to do this with an action.
Thus far, I have the following.
**Credit goes to George Johnson who helped me with the script to save the file using field names a few months ago**
To start, I have a folder level script
mySaveAs = app.trustPropagatorFunction(function(doc,path)
app.beginPriv();
var myDoc = event.target;
myDoc.saveAs(path);
app.endPriv();
myTrustedSpecialTaskFunc = app.trustedFunction(function(doc,path)
//privileged and/or non-privileged code above
app.beginPriv();
mySaveAs(doc, path);
app.endPriv
//Privileged and/or non-privileged code below
For the Action, I start with the Form file loaded
Then I execute a javascript to import the text into the file.
this.importTextData("/c/data/clerical.txt");
The next step is to save the file using field names as part of the file name
--credit goes to George Johnson who assisted me with this on a similar project a few months ago.
//Get the Field Value
var fn=getField("Last").valueAsString + "-" + getField("First").valueAsString;
//Specify the folder
var fldr = "/c/data/";
//Determine the full path
var fp=fldr + fn + ".pdf";
//save the file
myTrustedSpecialTaskFunc(this, fp);
That is as far as I have gotten.
What I want to do now is load the original form file, import the next line into the form, save the file, repeat.
If anyone could assist me, I would greatly appreciate it.
**note I had to type this from my I-pad because I kept getting kicked off the internet from my computer. I hope my code is typed correctly.

George
Thank you so much for your response.
Yes--there are multiple lines in the data file--it will vary from month to month. It looks like from what you are saying is that I need to do the global variable since it will constantly change, and then increment it as it goes through the text file. When it reaches the end, then it will stop.
I looked at the following links--but this is from Adobe 9 API--I don't know if things have changed with XI--especially since 9 used batch processing and XI has actions.
Count PDF Files
http://help.adobe.com/livedocs/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/ wwhelp.htm?href=JS_API_AcroJS.88.1.html
Global counter
http://help.adobe.com/livedocs/acrobat_sdk/9.1/Acrobat9_1_HTMLHelp/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/ wwhelp.htm?href=JS_API_AcroJS.88.1.html
I am not exactly sure how to include this in my code.
If you could point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it.

How to convert Mail attachment file Tab Delimited file to XML.

Hi PI Experts
 I have XI scenario: MAIL XI SAP (ABAP Proxy), the process is
1. XI will receive tab delimited file as attachment in mail.
2. XI will convert the tab delimited file into XML, then map to the target structure.
3. Target will be posted into ECC through ABAP Proxy.
Can anyone help me how can I convert the attachment file (i.e. Tab delimited file) to XML while configuring the sender side.
Thanks in Advance

I just grabed what I answered from another thread. It should work.
Processing sequence as follows:
1. localejbs/AF_Modules/PayloadSwapBean Local Enterprise Bean swap1
2. localejbs/AF_Modules/MessageTransformBean Local Enterprise Bean tran1
3. sap.com/com.sap.aii.adapter.mail.app/XIMailAdapterBean Local Enterprise Bean mail
Module Configuration as follows: Fill the XXXX part with your info.
swap1 swap.keyName payload-name
swap1 swap.keyValue MailAttachment-1
tran1 Transform.Class com.sap.aii.messaging.adapter.Conversion
tran1 Transform.ContentType ext/xml;charset=utf-8
tran1 xml.conversionType SimplePlain2XML
tran1 xml.documentName XXXXXXX_Mail
tran1 xml.documentNamespace http://XXXXX.com.au/XXXX
tran1 xml.fieldSeparator \t
tran1 xml.processFieldNames fromConfiguration
tran1 xml.structureTitle rows
Once you set up the above configuration, you will get one record at a time.
Create a souce message interface like the followings:
XXXXXXXXX_Mail
rows
record
Target message interface:
XXXXXXXXX
rows
field 1
field 2
field 3
Write a UDF function to remove the TAB space
public removeTABSpace(String record,Container container){
//write your code here
StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(record,"\t",false);
String t="";
while (st.hasMoreElements()) t += st.nextElement();
return t;
Write another UDF to get the field 1 for example:
public String getField1(String input,Container container){
int counter=0;
int beginIndex=0;
int endIndex=0;
int i;
for (i=0;i<input.length();i++){
if (input.charAt(i)==34){
counter=counter+1;
if (counter==1){
beginIndex=i+1;
counter=0;
break;
for (i=0;i<input.length();i++){
if (input.charAt(i)==34){
counter=counter+1;
if (counter==2){
endIndex=i;
counter=0;
break;
input=input.substring(beginIndex,endIndex);
return input;
Get the mapping like the followings:
record - removeTABSpace - getField1 - field 1
If you need to get field 2, you will need to write another UDF similar to the above one to handle it.

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