Problem with the Excel Download with GUI_DOWNLOAD

Question

Hi Sdn,
I am reading the long text from FM READ_TEXT and downloding that text to Excel file  in one cell with the GUI_DOWNLOAD FM (I got 16 lines of text and by using CONCATENATE i got 16 lines of text into a string variable).
The problem here I am facing is.
The text contains a # symbol in one line (Which is not a last line).
After downloading the file the text after the # symbol is coming in the next line.
I tried to REPLACE that # symbol with space but failed.
System not at all reading that symbol also.
The text came as LEE, ANDREW" Completed On: 2010/09/04#
Can any one help me to solve this issue.
Edited by: Naresh Nelapatla on Apr 20, 2011 8:27 PM

Answer 1

Hi Naresh,
My thoughts on a possible solution, convert the last character value to a HEX value and check if it falls within the ASCII/Unicode CP range, Obviously this becomes easier if you are just looking at a single language character set.
The below FM and code helps you check if the character falls within the ASCII char set.
DATA: l_in_char TYPE string,
      l_out     TYPE xstring.
CALL FUNCTION 'NLS_STRING_CONVERT_FROM_SYS'
  EXPORTING
    lang_used                   = sy-langu
    SOURCE                      = l_in_char
  TO_FE                       = 'MS '
IMPORTING
   RESULT                      = l_out
  SUBSTED                     =
EXCEPTIONS
   illegal_syst_codepage       = 1
   no_fe_codepage_found        = 2
   could_not_convert           = 3
   OTHERS                      = 4.
IF l_out LT '0' OR l_out GT '7F'.
  WRITE: 'error'.
ENDIF.
Links: http://www.asciitable.com/
          http://www.utf8-chartable.de/unicode-utf8-table.pl
Regards,
Chen
Edited by: Chen K V on Apr 21, 2011 11:25 AM