To Copy the file content to another file and to delete the orginal file.

Question

Hi ,
Can you pls let me know how i need to copy the contents of one file to other,
For e.g   P_FL Consits of following records ( Assume that file need to created on application server)
  This is standard header ( header record)
name  school class adreess ( item records)
xyz     abc     1        kkkkk
jjjj        cba     2       jkjkjkj
uiui      cab     3       oioioioi
  i need to copy the above mentioned file contents( P-FL) into another file say P_NEWFL.
so how i need to create this new file and how to copy the content of old file to new file.
After copying the contents of old file to new file i need to delete old file.

Answer 1

Sample code to implement this
PARAMETER: p_file TYPE file DEFAULT 'd:\interface\In\barcoinbound2sap.txt',
           p2_file TYPE file DEFAULT 'd:\interface\In\backup_barcoinbound2sap.txt'.
START-OF-SELECTION.
  OPEN DATASET p_file IN TEXT MODE ENCODING DEFAULT FOR INPUT.
  OPEN DATASET p2_file IN TEXT MODE ENCODING DEFAULT FOR OUTPUT.
  DO.
    READ DATASET p_file INTO line.
    IF sy-subrc NE 0.
      EXIT.
    ENDIF.
    TRANSFER line TO p2_file.
   IF sy-subrc NE 0.
     EXIT.
   ENDIF.
    SPLIT line AT ',' INTO lit_barco-prodnorder lit_barco-quant lit_barco-machtime lit_barco-duedate.
    APPEND lit_barco.
    CLEAR lit_barco.
  ENDDO.
  CLOSE DATASET p_file.
  CLOSE DATASET p2_file.
dalete dataset p_file