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THE CHARACTER ( ' )

Former Member — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:12:07 GMT

HELLO EVERYONE,

i need to replace ,in a name, the character ( ' ) by a sapce, i try to use the instruction TRANSLATE but what's the word for ( ' ) because it's will not work if i use the character .

thank you.

Re: THE CHARACTER ( ' )

Former Member — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:14:21 GMT

Hi,

Try this :

translate a using '''' '.

You can also use replace statement.

regards,

Advait

Edited by: Advait Gode on Sep 30, 2008 10:14 AM

Re: THE CHARACTER ( ' )

JozsefSzikszai — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:14:27 GMT

hi,

you should enter a double '

TRANSLATE text USING ''' '.

hope this helps

Re: THE CHARACTER ( ' )

Former Member — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:15:12 GMT

use the keyword REPLACE.

With luck,

Pritam.

Re: THE CHARACTER ( ' )

Former Member — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:19:40 GMT

Hello,

Check out the piece of code

data: char(2) type c value ''''.

write: char.

replace all occurrences of '''' in char with ''.

write: char.

Hope you will get what you need.

-Rajat

Re: THE CHARACTER ( ' )

Former Member — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:21:07 GMT

hii

try using below code

DATA:

wa_val(13) TYPE c VALUE 'SAP''ABAP'.

replace '''' with space into wa_val.

WRITE: / wa_val.

regards

twinkal

Re: THE CHARACTER ( ' )

Former Member — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:21:28 GMT

Use


TRANSLATE w_name USING ''' '.

Re: THE CHARACTER ( ' )

Former Member — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:22:53 GMT

hi lakbir,

use this

replace ''' with ' ' in <workarea>

with regards

s.janagar

Re: THE CHARACTER ( ' )

Former Member — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:25:28 GMT

REPORT zrnd5003.

DATA: tval TYPE char40 VALUE 'abcd''efghi'.

REPLACE all occurrences of '''' in tval with space.

write tval.