Pipe delimited flat file.

Question

Hello everyone out there!!
I have a flat file which contains the fields in the following manner:
MATNR| sloc |  date | plant |
Basically a pipe delimited file. So can anybody pls help me on how would I read this flat file and seperate the fields into the ITAB.
Thanks a lot in advance!!

Answer 1

Hi Amrita,
Use this sample code.
    CALL FUNCTION 'GUI_UPLOAD'
      EXPORTING
        filename                      = lv_file
        filetype                      = 'ASC'
        has_field_separator           = '|'
        header_length                 = 0
        read_by_line                  = 'X'
*    DAT_MODE                      = ' '
*    CODEPAGE                      = ' '
        ignore_cerr                   = 'X'
        replacement                   = '#'
*    CHECK_BOM                     = ' '
*    VIRUS_SCAN_PROFILE            =
*    NO_AUTH_CHECK                 = ' '
*  IMPORTING
*    FILELENGTH                    =
*    HEADER                        =
      TABLES
        data_tab                      = data_mat
*  EXCEPTIONS
*    FILE_OPEN_ERROR               = 1
*    FILE_READ_ERROR               = 2
*    NO_BATCH                      = 3
*    GUI_REFUSE_FILETRANSFER       = 4
*    INVALID_TYPE                  = 5
*    NO_AUTHORITY                  = 6
*    UNKNOWN_ERROR                 = 7
*    BAD_DATA_FORMAT               = 8
*    HEADER_NOT_ALLOWED            = 9
*    SEPARATOR_NOT_ALLOWED         = 10
*    HEADER_TOO_LONG               = 11
*    UNKNOWN_DP_ERROR              = 12
*    ACCESS_DENIED                 = 13
*    DP_OUT_OF_MEMORY              = 14
*    DISK_FULL                     = 15
*    DP_TIMEOUT                    = 16
*    OTHERS                        = 17
    IF sy-subrc <> 0.
      MESSAGE ID sy-msgid TYPE sy-msgty NUMBER sy-msgno
              WITH sy-msgv1 sy-msgv2 sy-msgv3 sy-msgv4.
    ELSE.
      LOOP AT data_mat.
        SPLIT data_mat-datastring AT '|' INTO
                           it_data-old_matno
                           it_data-x_comp
                           it_data-alt_uom
                           it_data-y_comp
                           it_data-matnr.
        APPEND it_data.
        CLEAR  it_data.
      ENDLOOP.
    ENDIF.
Reward if helpful.
Regards
Aneesh.