Reading tab delimited file from application server

Hi All,
I do know that we need to use Open data set to read a file from application server, but my question is when you use read DATASET v_file into wa_final - this wa_final is an work area and also i have mentione an internal table. so do we need to Split the record at tab into the corresponding fields. Append the records into an internal table i_input.????
Please let me know on this....
thanks in advance....
Poonam....

Hi,
first see the file contents in application server, how the contents whether the contents seperated by any symbol or not, if the contents seperated by any symbol then you have to split the data before appending to internal table.
check this code.
DATA: l_data_string TYPE string.
filename = p_file.
OPEN DATASET p_file FOR INPUT IN TEXT MODE ENCODING DEFAULT.
IF sy-subrc EQ 0.
    DO.
      READ DATASET filename INTO l_data_string.
      IF sy-subrc NE 0.
        EXIT.
      ENDIF.
      CLEAR k_input.
      SPLIT l_data_string AT '#' INTO k_input-agreement k_input-suffix k_input-status
            k_input-first_name k_input-last_name k_input-job_title k_input-tel k_input-fax k_input-email_address k_input-mob_number.
      APPEND k_input TO i_input.
    ENDDO.
ENDIF.
Regards,
Venu

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More over i would suggest you to ist replace # with some other * or , and then try to see in debugging if any further # appears..
and no # appears then try to split now.
if even now the # appears after replace statement then try to find out what exactly is it... wheather it is a horizantal tab etc....
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