Internal Table Sorting: Order alphabetic letters first then Numarics

Question

Hello Guys,
I am guessing this might be very simple.
After sorting my internal table looks like
TS1
TS2
TS3
TSA
TSB
TSC
I want it to be like
TSA
TSB
TBC
TS1
TS2
TS3
Any ideas.
Thank you.
Sharat.

Answer 1

Dear Sharat,
No explicit option in SORT is available for your requirement.
Separate records of Alphabetic letters and Numbers. Sort them individually and move them into final internal table.
Write some code as below
DATA: BEGIN OF itab OCCURS 0,
      str TYPE string,
      END OF itab,
      wa LIKE itab,
      l_len  TYPE i,
      itab1 LIKE itab OCCURS 0,
      l_sytabix TYPE sy-tabix.
wa-str = 'TSB'. APPEND wa TO itab.
wa-str = 'TS2'. APPEND wa TO itab.
wa-str = 'TS3'. APPEND wa TO itab.
wa-str = 'TSA'. APPEND wa TO itab.
wa-str = 'TSC'. APPEND wa TO itab.
wa-str = 'TS1'. APPEND wa TO itab.
*Separate records of Alphabetic letters and Numbers
LOOP AT itab INTO wa.   " ITAB contains all records
  l_sytabix = sy-tabix.
  l_len = STRLEN( wa-str ).
  l_len = l_len - 1.
  IF wa-str+l_len(1) CA '0123456789'.
    APPEND wa TO itab1.
    DELETE itab INDEX l_sytabix.
  ENDIF.
ENDLOOP.
SORT itab.   " Sort records of Alphabetic letters
SORT itab1. " Sort records of Numbers
APPEND LINES OF itab1 TO itab.  " After sorting, move into final table