CONDENSE : ABAP Keyword a day

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 microseconds). The variant … NO-GAPS needs about 12 msn.