White space errors in ABAP editor
I am a BW developer with an ABAP editor question. When I write lengthy SELECT SINGLE ... statements, I am constantly bugged with white space errors from the ABAP Editor. Is there a method I can use that would:

(a) Line up all of my required fields and be syntactically correct and
(b) still be easy to code and maintain?
(c) Also, do you recommend any secondary editor(s) that I could use to first write the code in and then cut and paste the code into the ABAP editor?

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It sounds like you are using the foreground ABAP editor. Have you tried the back end editor? There are third party editors available, with greater or less integration with SAP, but I find them not to be as useful as the ABAP editor. I tend to use the back end editor, and have never had problems such as you describe.

This was first published in December 2004

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