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Character count of a string

Former Member — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:27:59 GMT

Hi,

I need to know wheter a variable has how many letters or composition of both letters and numbers.

Assume: var = '0200000010'.

Here the count is 10, I need to know this strings lenght, how can I do this?

Thanks.

Re: Character count of a string

Former Member — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:31:48 GMT

data len type i

data str type string value '1210000000'.

len = strlen( str ).

write 😕 len.

if you want only numbers from STR you can copy the value in a type 'n' variable so it will have only the numeric characters

the you can compare the length and if they are not same, you can know that there is a combination of letters and numbers, the length of the type 'n' variable will give you the count of numeric characters, and the difference in lengths will give you the count of characters.

Edited by: Priyank Jain on Aug 14, 2008 4:32 AM

Re: Character count of a string

former_member188829 — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:32:01 GMT

DATA: var TYPE string.
var = '0200000010'.
DATA:length type i.

length = STRLEN( VAR ).

WRITE:/ 'length is', length.

Re: Character count of a string

former_member585060 — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:42:05 GMT

Use FM

DATA : ABC type STRING

DATA : X type i.

ABC = '90ABDC0'.

CALL FUNCTION 'STRING_LENGTH'

IMPORTING

STRING = ABC

EXPORTING

LENGTH = X

WRTIE : X.

Re: Character count of a string

Former Member — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:50:51 GMT

Hi Deniz,

data: len type i.

If var co '0123456789'. "Contains only numbers

len = strlen( var ).

else.

condense var. "Remove leading and trailing space characters

len = strlen( var ).

endif.

Hope this helps

David Cooper