Special Character in ABAP

Hello,
I can't remember how to use specials characters in ABAP, for example if I want to put a tab in a string.
Can someone help me ?
Thanks,
Benoî

Hi Benoît!
Then you are probably not in an unicode system, so you can make a trick with a structure:
DATA: BEGIN OF tab_struc,
        field TYPE x,
      END OF tab_struc,
      tab TYPE char1.
tab_struc-field = 23.
Now you can assign to the hexadecimal field any code, which is for tab maybe 11 - just try out some values below 27. Later you just use the structure tab_struc, but without specifying the field -> you get a conversion into char without changes of value, that is as much as a tab or bell or linefeed.
Regards,
Christian

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