Trailing space in char field

Hello there,
I am a BW developer and I am currently having an issue with trailing spaces in an ABAP routine.
This is the situation (example... In real life I use larger char fields):
- From a source I get a text line that is let's say max. 60 characters long.
- In BW I split this line into 3 parts and save those in the short text fields of 3 different InfoObjects. Short text is defined as CHAR 20.
- Later on I can display the text line I just split up as one line of text again. I need to do this because BW can only store texts with acertain length.
- Now it is possible that the text line I get has a blank at position 20. I need to keep this blank in the first of my 3 parts. But since it is a character field, the blank is ignored and only the first 19 characters are saved.
Question:
How can I manage to save all first 20 characters in the first of the three CHAR 20 fields, including any trailing blanks?
The fields have to be defined as CHAR because that is the definition of text fields in BW. (data type RSTXTSH, to be exact)
Example:
Incoming text line (Notice, the character at position 20 is a blank):
"blabla1111blabla111 blabla2222blabla2222blabla3333blabla3333"
After splitting it into three parts, I get this:
Part 1: "blabla1111blabla111" (no trailing blank)
Part 2: "blabla2222blabla2222"
Part 3: "blabla3333blabla3333"
What I need is this:
Part 1: "blabla1111blabla111 " (with trailing blank)
Part 2: "blabla2222blabla2222"
Part 3: "blabla3333blabla3333"
Any help will be greatly appreciated
Thanks and regards,
Stefan

Hi Stefan,
As Stefan Seeburger already said you can use RESPECTING BLANKS to get that.
DATA: i_input TYPE c LENGTH 60,
       e_part1 TYPE c LENGTH 20,
       e_part2 TYPE c LENGTH 20,
       e_part3 TYPE c LENGTH 20,
       v_space   TYPE c LENGTH 1,
       e_partfull TYPE c LENGTH 60.
i_input = 'blabla1111blabla111 blabla2222blabla2222blabla3333blabla3333'.
SPLIT i_input AT v_space INTO: e_part1 e_part2 e_part3.
e_part1 = i_input(20).
e_part2 = i_input+20(20).
e_part3 = i_input+40(20).
DATA: lv_length TYPE i.
lv_length = STRLEN( e_part1 ).
CONCATENATE e_part1 e_part2 e_part3 INTO e_partfull RESPECTING BLANKS.
DATA: lv_length2 TYPE i.
lv_length2 = STRLEN( e_partfull ).
BREAK-POINT.
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