Reg:Download FM

Question

Hi All,
Iam using the FM GUI_DOWNLOAD to download the table data to an excel sheet.
But if the Output field contains any characters like -,;,# then data in the excel sheet is shifting to next column.Kindly suggest me how to proceed.
Thanks & Regards,
Padmasri.

Answer 1

Hi,
Declare as following and give filetype as DBF and check the output.
se sample code.
DATA: w_tab TYPE c VALUE cl_abap_char_utilities=>horizontal_tab.
CALL FUNCTION 'GUI_DOWNLOAD'
    EXPORTING
    BIN_FILESIZE                    =
      filename                        = w_file
   filetype                        = 'DBF'
    append                          = ' '
   write_field_separator           = w_tab
    HEADER                          = '00'
    TRUNC_TRAILING_BLANKS           = ' '
    WRITE_LF                        = 'X'
    COL_SELECT                      = ' '
    COL_SELECT_MASK                 = ' '
    DAT_MODE                        = ' '
    CONFIRM_OVERWRITE               = ' '
    NO_AUTH_CHECK                   = ' '
    CODEPAGE                        = ' '
    IGNORE_CERR                     = ABAP_TRUE
    REPLACEMENT                     = '#'
    WRITE_BOM                       = ' '
    TRUNC_TRAILING_BLANKS_EOL       = 'X'
    WK1_N_FORMAT                    = ' '
    WK1_N_SIZE                      = ' '
    WK1_T_FORMAT                    = ' '
    WK1_T_SIZE                      = ' '
  IMPORTING
    FILELENGTH                      =
    TABLES
      data_tab                        = it_extractchar
   fieldnames                      = it_header
EXCEPTIONS
   file_write_error                = 1
   no_batch                        = 2
   gui_refuse_filetransfer         = 3
   invalid_type                    = 4
   no_authority                    = 5
   unknown_error                   = 6
   header_not_allowed              = 7
   separator_not_allowed           = 8
   filesize_not_allowed            = 9
   header_too_long                 = 10
   dp_error_create                 = 11
   dp_error_send                   = 12
   dp_error_write                  = 13
   unknown_dp_error                = 14
   access_denied                   = 15
   dp_out_of_memory                = 16
   disk_full                       = 17
   dp_timeout                      = 18
   file_not_found                  = 19
   dataprovider_exception          = 20
   control_flush_error             = 21
   OTHERS                          = 22
    IF sy-subrc <> 0.
      MESSAGE ID sy-msgid TYPE sy-msgty NUMBER sy-msgno
              WITH sy-msgv1 sy-msgv2 sy-msgv3 sy-msgv4.
    ENDIF.
Regards
Bala Krishna