Strange blank characters

Hi,
I am facing strange behaviors with some string manipulations:
I have two string variables hh and mmss.
Content of hh='16' mmss='0000'
Then I call :
CONCATENATE hh mmss INTO hhmmss.
At that point, hhmmss='16 0000'
It should be '160000'. Why such a strange thing ?
I also tried CONCATENATE hh mmss INTO hhmmss SEPARATED BY ''. but I have the same hhmmsss which contains something like a blank character.
CONDENSE hhmmss. cannot remove that character.
(The purpose of this manipulation is to format a date string assigned then to a d type variable).
Any suggestion ?
Sincerely,
Olivier Matt

hi,
CONDENSE lv_string NO-GAPS .
or
lv_char2 type char2,
lv_char2 type char4,
lv_string type string.
lv_char2 = lv_hh_variable.
lv_char4 = lv_mmss_variable.
concatenate lv_char2 lv_char4 into lv_string.
this will remove strange char form the string.
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