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remove character from a string

Former Member — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:41:45 GMT

wats the command to remove characters in a string?

I have to remove 'bb' from a string

Re: remove character from a string

JozsefSzikszai — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:43:40 GMT

hi,

you can try the REPLACE statement. There will be a space in the string instead of 'bb', which you can delete with CONDENSE ... NO-GAPS.

hope this helps

Re: remove character from a string

Former Member — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:49:50 GMT

Hello


DATA FIELD(10).
MOVE 'ABCBB' TO FIELD.
REPLACE 'BB' WITH ' ' INTO field.
CONDENSE field.

Re: remove character from a string

Former Member — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:05:34 GMT


DATA lv_field(5).
MOVE 'CCCBB' TO lv_field.
SEARCH lv_field FOR 'BB'.
IF sy-subrc = 0.
  REPLACE 'BB' WITH ' ' INTO lv_field.
  CONDENSE lv_field.
  WRITE lv_field.
ENDIF.

Re: remove character from a string

rainer_hbenthal — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:06:56 GMT

If you are replacing bb by ' ' there will be a gap, but why dont you replace it by ''?

Re: remove character from a string

Former Member — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:20:21 GMT

Please do not double-post or cross-post your questions.

We typically delete all the questions when this is found.

Cheers,

Julius

Re: remove character from a string

JozsefSzikszai — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:03:58 GMT

just checked:

DATA : text(10) TYPE c VALUE 'AABBCC'.

REPLACE 'BB' IN text WITH ''.

and really text is 'AACC' after the above

(I remembered so that a space was left there, even if the replacing value was 'nothing' and I had to use the CONDENSE ... NO-GAPS afterwards to delete that unnecessary space. There are two options: 1. My memories are wrong 2. It happened in earlier releases (now I tried in 4.7). Anyway, thanks for your correction!)

Re: remove character from a string

rainer_hbenthal — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:18:22 GMT

Just said so because the condense may delete gaps which should not be affected...

Nevertheless i cant tell you if this was working different in 4.7. i started to use this command in ERP 2005.