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string function for ignoring case while comparison

Former Member — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:22:37 GMT

Hi everyone,

Is there any function to ignore case of two alphanumeric strings while their comparison.For ex.

string1: M23456n

string2:m23456n

When i compare these two strings,i want them to be equal,i.e. the case to be ignored.

Please help.

Thanks in advance,

Meena.

Re: string function for ignoring case while comparison

rainer_hbenthal — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:23:55 GMT

you have to use temp variables for that. copy the values to the tempory variables, translate them to uppercase and comapre them.


data:
  s1 type string,
  s2 type string,
  t1 type string,
  t2 type string.

start-of-selection.
  s1 = `M23456n`.
  s2 = `m23456n`.

  t1 = s1.
  t2 = s2.
  translate t1 to upper case.
  translate t2 to upper case.

  if t1 = t2.
    perform do_something.
  endif.

Re: string function for ignoring case while comparison

Former Member — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:25:56 GMT

Use the two strings one by one in the function module 2054_TRANSLATE_2_UPPERCASE and store them in say str1 and str2

then compare them

Re: string function for ignoring case while comparison

Former Member — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:27:02 GMT

Try

DATA : VAL1 TYPE STRING VALUE 'M23456n',
       VAL2 type string value 'm23456n'.

TRANSLATE VAL1 TO UPPER CASE.
TRANSLATE VAL2 TO UPPER CASE.


IF VAL1 = VAL2.

WRITE 'Same'.

ENDIF.

Regards

Re: string function for ignoring case while comparison

Former Member — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:33:23 GMT

Hi Meena,

Go for the following code snippet.

DATA: a TYPE string VALUE 'M23456n',

b TYPE string VALUE 'm23456N'.

IF a CS b.

WRITE 'true'.

ENDIF.

For detailed info refer this.

NS (contains No String)

The logical expression

is true if <f1> does not contain the string <f2>. Trailing spaces are ignored and the comparison is not case-sensitive. If the comparison is true, the system field SY-FDPOS contains the length of <f1>. If it is false, SY-FDPOS contains the offset of <f2> in <f1> .

Thanks

NItesh

Re: string function for ignoring case while comparison

Former Member — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:37:21 GMT

Hi all,

Scenario is like this:

I have an interface,XI team sends an idoc.This idoc name is a sring. I have my own idoc ,so we have to compare the two idocs,i.e. the strings are suppose to be passed at run time.

Re: string function for ignoring case while comparison

Former Member — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:37:24 GMT

Thanks a lot guys....but TRANSLATE helped me and i got the desired result.