Parse tab delimited file after upload

I could use some advice. I have a requirement to parse and insert an uploaded, tab delimited file using APEX. Directly off of the file system, I would do this with an external table, but here I am uploading the file into a CLOB field. Does PL/SQL have any native functions to parse delimited files?
The user will not have access to the data load part of APEX, although I have seen numerous requests on this forum for that functionality to be added to the user GUI. Thoughts?

j,
I wrote this a while ago...
http://www.danielmcghan.us/2009/02/easy-csv-uploads-yes-we-can.html
I've since improved the code a little bit. If you like the solution, I could do a new post with the latest code.
Regards,
Dan
Blog: http://DanielMcGhan.us/
Work: http://SkillBuilders.com/

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Upload tab-delimited file from the application server to an internal table

Hello SAPients.
I'm using OPEN DATASET..., READ DATASET..., CLOSE DATASET to upload a file from the application server (SunOS). I'm working with SAP 4.6C. I'm trying to upload a tab-delimited file to an internal table but when I try load it the fields are not correctly separated, in fact, they are all misplaced and the table shows '#' where supposedly there was a tab.
I tried to SPLIT the line using as separator a variable with reference to CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES=>HORIZONTAL_TAB but for some reason that class doesn't exist in my system.
Do you know what I'm doing wrong? or Do you know a better method to upload a tab-delimited file into an internal table?
Thank you in advance for your help.

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REPORT ztest MESSAGE-ID 00.
PARAMETER: p_file LIKE rlgrap-filename   OBLIGATORY.
DATA: BEGIN OF data_tab OCCURS 0,
      data(4096),
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DATA: BEGIN OF vendor_file_x OCCURS 0.
* LFA1 Data
DATA: mandt LIKE bgr00-mandt,
      lifnr LIKE blf00-lifnr,
      anred LIKE blfa1-anred,
      bahns LIKE blfa1-bahns,
      bbbnr LIKE blfa1-bbbnr,
      bbsnr LIKE blfa1-bbsnr,
      begru LIKE blfa1-begru,
      brsch LIKE blfa1-brsch,
      bubkz LIKE blfa1-bubkz,
      datlt LIKE blfa1-datlt,
      dtams LIKE blfa1-dtams,
      dtaws LIKE blfa1-dtaws,
      erdat LIKE lfa1-erdat,
      ernam LIKE lfa1-ernam,
      esrnr LIKE blfa1-esrnr,
      konzs LIKE blfa1-konzs,
      ktokk LIKE lfa1-ktokk,
      kunnr LIKE blfa1-kunnr,
      land1 LIKE blfa1-land1,
      lnrza LIKE blfa1-lnrza,
      loevm LIKE blfa1-loevm,
      name1 LIKE blfa1-name1,
      name2 LIKE blfa1-name2,
      name3 LIKE blfa1-name3,
      name4 LIKE blfa1-name4,
      ort01 LIKE blfa1-ort01,
      ort02 LIKE blfa1-ort02,
      pfach LIKE blfa1-pfach,
      pstl2 LIKE blfa1-pstl2,
      pstlz LIKE blfa1-pstlz,
      regio LIKE blfa1-regio,
      sortl LIKE blfa1-sortl,
      sperr LIKE blfa1-sperr,
      sperm LIKE blfa1-sperm,
      spras LIKE blfa1-spras,
      stcd1 LIKE blfa1-stcd1,
      stcd2 LIKE blfa1-stcd2,
      stkza LIKE blfa1-stkza,
      stkzu LIKE blfa1-stkzu,
      stras LIKE blfa1-stras,
      telbx LIKE blfa1-telbx,
      telf1 LIKE blfa1-telf1,
      telf2 LIKE blfa1-telf2,
      telfx LIKE blfa1-telfx,
      teltx LIKE blfa1-teltx,
      telx1 LIKE blfa1-telx1,
      xcpdk LIKE lfa1-xcpdk,
      xzemp LIKE blfa1-xzemp,
      vbund LIKE blfa1-vbund,
      fiskn LIKE blfa1-fiskn,
      stceg LIKE blfa1-stceg,
      stkzn LIKE blfa1-stkzn,
      sperq LIKE blfa1-sperq,
      adrnr LIKE lfa1-adrnr,
      mcod1 LIKE lfa1-mcod1,
      mcod2 LIKE lfa1-mcod2,
      mcod3 LIKE lfa1-mcod3,
      gbort LIKE blfa1-gbort,
      gbdat LIKE blfa1-gbdat,
      sexkz LIKE blfa1-sexkz,
      kraus LIKE blfa1-kraus,
      revdb LIKE blfa1-revdb,
      qssys LIKE blfa1-qssys,
      ktock LIKE blfa1-ktock,
      pfort LIKE blfa1-pfort,
      werks LIKE blfa1-werks,
      ltsna LIKE blfa1-ltsna,
      werkr LIKE blfa1-werkr,
      plkal LIKE lfa1-plkal,
      duefl LIKE lfa1-duefl,
      txjcd LIKE blfa1-txjcd,
      sperz LIKE lfa1-sperz,
      scacd LIKE blfa1-scacd,
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      lzone LIKE blfa1-lzone,
      xlfza LIKE lfa1-xlfza,
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      actss LIKE blfa1-actss,
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      emnfr LIKE blfa1-emnfr,
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FIELD-SYMBOLS: <field>,
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DATA: delim          TYPE x        VALUE '09'.
DATA: fld_chk(4096),
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      quote_2     TYPE i,
      fld_lth     TYPE i,
      columns     TYPE i,
      field_end   TYPE i,
      outp_rec    TYPE i,
      extras(3)   TYPE c        VALUE '.,"',
      mixed_no(14) TYPE c        VALUE '1234567890-.,"'.
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DO.
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ELSE.
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DO.
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points guranteed if answered!!

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LINE(132) TYPE C,
END OF MTAB_DATA.
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MI_KEY TYPE I VALUE 26101957,
MI_PWD_LEN TYPE I,
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       COMMAND = 'dir'
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       DATA_ERROR = 3
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ENDLOOP.
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Hi ,
In ECC 6 if all the unicode patches are applied then UTF 16 will defintly work..
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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..
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This should work for you..
Let me know if you further face any issue...
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Tab Delimited File Using Receiver FCC

Hi Experts,
I need to generate a Tab Delimited File Using Receiver FCC. I have achieved the same by copying the tab length from a notepad and used the same in name.fieldSeparator parameter.
The other below mentioned values for name.fieldSeparator didnu2019t produce the expected result:
name.fieldSeparator=u2019htu2019
name.fieldSeparator=u2019\tu2019
name.fieldSeparator=u2019 0x09u2019
So just need to know if my approach for achieving this is fine or not.
Thanking you in advance.
Aditya.

Verma,
name.fieldSeparator=u2019 0x09u2019
I see a space after the first comma. Try removing it and give a try.
'0x09' with no spaces.
Regards,
---Satish

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I am having Trouble importing contacts from a tab-delimited file into Contacts on MacBook Pro, OS 10.9.5, Intel 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo., 400GB drive, 4GB memory DDR3
So far I have:
- Followed closely the help screen in Contacts app
- Modified my source document meticulously - first in MS Word, then copied and tweaked in Apple's "Text Edit" app
- The problem arises when I go to access the document for import. Specifically, the target document, and all others in that file, are "greyed out" and thus can't be "opened" to facilitate the import process
- Tried changing the extension of the document name to ".txt", ".rtf", and ".rtd". No change or improvement.
- Searched Apple.com/help and found nothing relevant
Can anyone offer some advice or tell me what I may be overlooking in this process?
Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
<Email Edited By Host>

Hi Rammohan,
Thanks for the effort!
But I don't need to use GUI upload because my functionality does not require to fetch data from presentation server.
Moreover, the split command advised by you contains separate fields...f1, f2, f3... and I cannot use it because I have 164 fields. I will have to split into 164 fields and assign the values back to 164 fields in the work area/header line.
Moreover I have about 10 such work areas. so the effort would be ten times the above effort! I want to avoid this! Please help!
I would be very grateful if you could provide an alternative solution.
Thanks once again,
Best Regards,
Vinod.V

Feature request : import of multi-line notes in CSV or tab-delimited file

This is a feature request to the AddressBook development team:
Following a question posted here and asked to support (thanks to Barry and Julia from ADC), it turns out that AddressBook is not ready yet to import multi-line notes from a CSV or tab-delimited file.
I would like to kindly suggest the AddressBook development team to update the import methods for such flat files to parse the text of what is assigned to the Notes field, and convert documented escape sequences to their pre-determined corresponding special character.
I would think that the following would be pretty easy to implement, and easy for the targeted audience (enthousiasts power-users and up) to remember:
"\n " : mark a new line (same as ^p in Word)
"\t " : replace by a tab
I would keep the trailing space to avoid problems with DOS-type file path problems.
and of course...
"\\n " and "\\t " for whoever would want to import notes about \n and \t
For example, in a Notes column, the text:
"Escape sequence \\n :\n move the text to a new line\n \n while escape sequence \\t :\t move the text to the next horizontal tab"
would give the following (just consider text between <Note> marks):
<Note>
Escape sequence \n:
move the text to a new line
while escape sequence \t: move the text to the next horizontal tab
</Note>
Thanks for reading...
Frédéric Denis

The developers do not necessarily read these USER discussion pages. If you want to make suggestions and know they will be read (which is at least a step towards implementation) use the OS X feedback page.
AK

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Hi,
I have to attach a tab delimited file to a mail and sent it using Function Module 'SO_DOCUMENT_SEND_API1'.
I have filled in the following details but i am not sure about what should be given for 'lt_packing_list-doc_type'. Should it be a 'TXT 'or any other file format. Some one has suggested me a 'CSV' but i guess for that the data should be separated by a comma and i need a tab delimited file.
Please suggest me what needs to be done.
Thank you,
Taher
DATA:
        con_tab TYPE c VALUE cl_abap_char_utilities=>horizontal_tab,
        con_cret TYPE c VALUE cl_abap_char_utilities=>cr_lf.
LOOP AT gt_output INTO ls_output.
    CONCATENATE ls_output-email
                ls_output-pos
                ls_output-txt
                ls_output-func
                ls_output-mail
             INTO gt_attach SEPARATED BY con_tab.
    CONCATENATE con_cret gt_attach INTO gt_attach.
    CONDENSE gt_attach.
    APPEND gt_attach.
* Fill the document data.
lv_xdocdata-doc_size = 1.
* Populate the subject/generic message attributes
lv_xdocdata-obj_langu = sy-langu.
lv_xdocdata-obj_name = 'SAPRPT'.
lv_xdocdata-obj_descr = 'Report' .
* Fill the document data and get size of attachment
CLEAR lv_xdocdata.
READ TABLE gt_attach INDEX lv_xcnt.
lv_xdocdata-doc_size =
     ( lv_xcnt - 1 ) * 255 + STRLEN( gt_attach ).
lv_xdocdata-obj_langu = sy-langu.
lv_xdocdata-obj_name   = 'SAPRPT'.
lv_xdocdata-obj_descr = ' Report'.
CLEAR lt_attachment. REFRESH lt_attachment.
lt_attachment[] = gt_attach[].
* Describe the body of the message
CLEAR lt_packing_list. REFRESH lt_packing_list.
lt_packing_list-transf_bin = space.
lt_packing_list-head_start = 1.
lt_packing_list-head_num = 0. lt_packing_list-body_start = 1.
DESCRIBE TABLE lt_message LINES lt_packing_list-body_num.
lt_packing_list-doc_type = 'RAW'.
APPEND lt_packing_list.
* Create attachment notification
lt_packing_list-transf_bin = 'X'.
lt_packing_list-head_start = 1.
lt_packing_list-head_num   = 1.
lt_packing_list-body_start = 1.
DESCRIBE TABLE lt_attachment LINES lt_packing_list-body_num.
lt_packing_list-doc_type   = ?????. "TXT or any other format
lt_packing_list-obj_descr = 'Report'.
lt_packing_list-obj_name   = 'Report'.
lt_packing_list-doc_size   = lt_packing_list-body_num * 255.
APPEND lt_packing_list.
* Add the recipients email address
LOOP AT gt_receivers INTO ls_receivers.
    CLEAR lt_receivers.
    lt_receivers-receiver = ls_receivers.
    lt_receivers-rec_type = 'U'.
    lt_receivers-com_type = 'INT'.
    APPEND lt_receivers.
ENDLOOP.

Hi Taher,
Which table you populate your data to (CONTENTS_BIN,CONTENTS_TXT,CONTENTS_HEX) ?.
As both the message and attachment reside one table (contents_txt) in it_packing_list body of message should start with 1 line, but of an attachment when body of message ends. This is:
* Describe the body of the message
CLEAR lt_packing_list. REFRESH lt_packing_list.
lt_packing_list-transf_bin = space.
lt_packing_list-head_start = 1.
lt_packing_list-head_num = 0. lt_packing_list-body_start = 1.
DESCRIBE TABLE lt_message LINES lt_packing_list-body_num.
lt_packing_list-doc_type = 'RAW'.
APPEND lt_packing_list.
* Create attachment notification
lt_packing_list-transf_bin = 'X'.
lt_packing_list-head_start = 1.
lt_packing_list-head_num   = 1.
lt_packing_list-body_start = "start of attachemnt with next line after body of message
Next thing is what I appointed before. Both should be passed as ASCII so in both lt_packing_list-transf_bin = space.
Please see my code.
CONSTANTS: con_cret(2) type c VALUE cl_abap_char_utilities=>cr_lf,
           con_tab(2) TYPE c VALUE cl_abap_char_utilities=>horizontal_tab.
DATA: doc_attr TYPE sodocchgi1,
      it_packing_list TYPE TABLE OF sopcklsti1 WITH HEADER LINE,
      it_message TYPE TABLE OF solisti1 WITH HEADER LINE,
      it_attachment TYPE TABLE OF solisti1 WITH HEADER LINE,
      it_txt TYPE TABLE OF solisti1 WITH HEADER LINE,
      it_receivers TYPE TABLE OF somlreci1 WITH HEADER LINE.
"Document attributes
doc_attr-obj_name = 'EXT_MAIL'.
doc_attr-obj_descr = 'External test mail'.   "title
doc_attr-obj_langu = sy-langu.
doc_attr-sensitivty = 'F'.      "functional message
"Message in ASCII (txt) format
APPEND 'This is body message' TO it_message.   "message is from 1 to 2
APPEND 'and second line for message.' TO it_message.
APPEND LINES OF it_message TO it_txt.
"Determine how data are distrtibuted to document and attachment
"First line in it_packing describes message body
it_packing_list-transf_bin = space. "ASCII format
it_packing_list-body_start = 1.      "message body starts from 1st line
DESCRIBE TABLE it_message LINES it_packing_list-body_num. "lines in it_txt table for message body
it_packing_list-doc_type = 'RAW'.
APPEND it_packing_list.
"Attachment in ASCII (txt) format
CONCATENATE '1first' 'second' 'third' 'fourth' into it_attachment SEPARATED BY con_tab.   "first line
CONCATENATE con_cret it_attachment.
APPEND it_attachment.
CONCATENATE '2first' 'second' 'third' 'fourth' into it_attachment SEPARATED BY con_tab. "second line
CONCATENATE it_attachment con_cret into it_attachment.
APPEND it_attachment.
APPEND LINES OF it_attachment TO it_txt.
"Further lines in it_packing describe attachment
CLEAR it_packing_list.
it_packing_list-transf_bin = space. "ASCII format
it_packing_list-body_start = 3.
DESCRIBE TABLE it_attachment LINES it_packing_list-body_num.
it_packing_list-doc_type = 'txt'.
it_packing_list-obj_name = 'Test attachment'.
it_packing_list-obj_descr = 'Title of an attachment'.
it_packing_list-obj_langu = sy-langu.
"size od attachment = length of last line + all remaining lines * 255
READ TABLE it_attachment INDEX it_packing_list-body_num.
it_packing_list-doc_size = STRLEN( it_attachment ) + 255 * ( it_packing_list-body_num - 1 ).
APPEND it_packing_list.
"Receivers
it_receivers-receiver = "some mail address.
it_receivers-rec_type = 'U'. "internet address
it_receivers-com_type = 'INT'. "send via internet
APPEND it_receivers.
CALL FUNCTION 'SO_NEW_DOCUMENT_ATT_SEND_API1'
EXPORTING
    document_data                    = doc_attr
    put_in_outbox                    = 'X'
    commit_work                      = 'X'
* IMPORTING
*   SENT_TO_ALL                      =
*   NEW_OBJECT_ID                    =
TABLES
    packing_list                     = it_packing_list
*   OBJECT_HEADER                    =
*   CONTENTS_BIN                     =
   contents_txt                     = it_txt
*   CONTENTS_HEX                     =
*   OBJECT_PARA                      =
*   OBJECT_PARB                      =
    receivers                        = it_receivers.
* EXCEPTIONS
*   TOO_MANY_RECEIVERS               = 1
*   DOCUMENT_NOT_SENT                = 2
*   DOCUMENT_TYPE_NOT_EXIST          = 3
*   OPERATION_NO_AUTHORIZATION       = 4
*   PARAMETER_ERROR                  = 5
*   X_ERROR                          = 6
*   ENQUEUE_ERROR                    = 7
*   OTHERS                           = 8
IF sy-subrc = 0.
WAIT UP TO 2 SECONDS.
SUBMIT rsconn01 WITH mode = 'INT'
*                    WITH ouput = 'X'
                  AND RETURN.
ENDIF.
I am using SO01 t-code to see the document and attachemnt.
I am sure when you get rid of the differences with the codes you will get desired result.
Regards
Marcin

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Required by Bank:
692532 73855963 RRS P R BACKLEY         169.91 GSLV
294518 99855581 CETS PRITECTIIN         799.72 GSLV
The output I get from SAP/DMEE:
........1........2........3........4........5........6....
VOL1000004                           ....953312
              1 <CR/LF>
HDR1A953312S 195331200000400010001       10040 100420000000
                <CR/LF>
HDR2F0200000100                                   00
                <CR/LF>
UHL1 10041999999    000000001 DAILY 000
                <CR/LF>
6010392865540009960062063474662    00000115000ABC UK Ltd.       0
1465                                <CR/LF>
6006206347466201760062063474662    00000115000SAPBACS0000003306 C
ONTRA            ABC UK LTD.        <CR/LF>
EOF1A953312S 195331200000400010001       10040 100420000000
                <CR/LF>
EOF2F0200000100                                   00
                <CR/LF>
UTL10000000115000000000011500000000010000001
                <CR/LF>
END
                <CR/LF>
<END>
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