CONDENSE (ABAP Keyword)

CONDENSE (ABAP Keyword) introduction & details

CONDENSE


Basic form
CONDENSE c.

Addition



... NO-GAPS


Effect
Shifts the contents of the field c to the left, so that each word is separated by exactly one blank.

Example

DATA: BEGIN OF NAME,
TITLE(8), VALUE 'Dr.',
FIRST_NAME(10), VALUE 'Michael',
SURNAME(10), VALUE 'Hofmann',
END OF NAME.
CONDENSE NAME.
WRITE NAME.


produces the output:

Dr. Michael Hofmann

Addition
... NO-GAPS

Effect
Suppresses all blanks from the field c

Example

DATA: BEGIN OF NAME,
TITLE(8), VALUE 'Dr.',
FIRST_NAME(10), VALUE 'Michael',
SURNAME(10), VALUE 'Hofmann',
END OF NAME.
CONDENSE NAME NO-GAPS.


The contents of NAME is now " Dr.MichaelHofmann ".

Since the field string NAME is interpreted and handled like a type C field, the CONDENSE statement treats it as a whole and ignores any sub-fields. The contents of the component field would therefore now be as follows:

NAME-TITLE = 'Dr.Micha'
NAME-FIRST_NAME = 'elHofmann '
NAME-SURNAME = ' '

Note
Do not use CONDENSE to manipulate field strings that include fields not of type C. This could result in these component fields containing characters of a different (i.e. incorrect) type.
Related SHIFT , CONCATENATE , REPLACE , SPLIT

Note
Performance
The runtime required to condense three fields is about 20 msn (standardized micooseconds). The variant ... NO-GAPS needs about 12 msn.

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