MOVE THE SECOND FIELD VALUES

Question

hi guys,
I am uploading the data for open AR items from an PIPE delimiter file. I read the data into an internal table and spilit the data at pipe delimiter.... now I have to do some validations.
There is one trailer record at the end in the file. In that trailer record I get the number of records in the second field like
9|20|100.000|10.000|        here 20 is the number of records
if it is a standard structure file then i can write the logic as
IF V_FNAME1 NE 'X'.
    DESCRIBE TABLE I_FILEDATA1 LINES V_FILEDATA1.
    READ TABLE I_FILEDATA1 INTO WA_FILEDATA1 INDEX  V_FILEDATA1 .
    MOVE WA_FILEDATA1+2(5) TO V_LINES1 .
    IF V_FILEDATA1 NE V_LINES1.
      MESSAGE 'NUMBER OF LINES READ ARE NOT SAME' TYPE 'E'.
    ENDIF.
  ENDIF.
In the above logic i counted the number of records and compared that number with the number of records given in the trailer record (20)
how to modify this logic if the file is a pipe delimiter file.....
how to capture that value into one variable can any one guide me please......
SRI

Answer 1

Are you planning to do this within the previous READ_FILE_DATA subroutine or outside? Is your trailer record always of the same structure in all the 3 files? If so, you can declare a new structure as follows and insert this code in your subroutine where you upload the file, after the records are appended to itab_file.
data: begin of wa_trailer,
        rec_type,
        count(10) type n,
        field1(?) type c,
        field2(?) type c.
data: end of wa_trailer.
Now in your subroutine, after itab_file is filled up insert this code
describe table itab_file lines v_rec_count.
v_rec_count = v_rec_count - 1.
read table itab_file into wa_trailer index v_rec_count.
if v_rec_count <> wa_trailer-count.
error.
endif.
Here I am assuming that the count 20 you have is not including the trailer record. If it is also included, then remove the "v_rec_count = v_rec_count - 1." sentence.