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Comoparing Strings 'CO'

Former Member — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:28:41 GMT

Hi All,

Can you guys please take a look at this and let me know why this CO operation is not working.

DATA: _tparam(14) TYPE c.

DATA: lv_str(10) TYPE c.

lv_str = '1234567890'.

_tparam = '90'

CONDENSE _tparam NO-GAPS.

IF tparam CO lvstr.

l_var = _tparam.

ELSE.

l_var = 200.

ENDIF.

I did even check the sy-fdpos value, the returned value is correct but the statement in the if block is not getting executed. The else block part is getting executed which is really surprising. I checked the documentation in help.sap.com . But the behaviour I see here is interesting.

Thanks,

Varun

Re: Comoparing Strings 'CO'

Former Member — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:32:29 GMT

_tparam also contains spaces (it's declared (14)type c). You don't have a space in your legal characters string....

Re: Comoparing Strings 'CO'

kesavadas_thekkillath — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:41:35 GMT

lv_str - char10. tparam - char14. This is the problem.

Change it as


DATA: _tparam(14) TYPE c.
DATA: lv_str(14) TYPE c.

or change both the variables to type string.

Re: Comoparing Strings 'CO'

Former Member — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:42:15 GMT

Hi,

I do not agree with what you are saying, since I am assigning the value 90 only though the length is 14. Even then I am condensing the _tparam value saying no-gaps. I think that should take care of what you are saying.

Thanks,

Varun

Re: Comoparing Strings 'CO'

kesavadas_thekkillath — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:44:16 GMT

Condensing will not reduce the size of variable _tparam to 10

Read the F1 help of Comparison operators for character-type operands.

Re: Comoparing Strings 'CO'

Former Member — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:49:09 GMT

I changed the code like this.

IF _tparam CO '1234567890'.

l_var = _tparam.

ELSE.

l_var = 200.

ENDIF.

Still it does not work. I tried the other options suggested by Keshav too. It did not work.

Thanks,

Varun

Re: Comoparing Strings 'CO'

Former Member — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:49:26 GMT

after your statements, _tparam contains '90 ' or 90 followed by 12 spaces. Your legal characters string does not contain a space! Therefore, _tparam does not contain only 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 or 8 or 9 or 0, does it?!! Change your legal characters to C11 and put a space on the front of the string of legal characters.

Re: Comoparing Strings 'CO'

Former Member — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:51:46 GMT

Do us a favor and add a space in your comparison string:

'0123456789 '

and try again.

Re: Comoparing Strings 'CO'

kesavadas_thekkillath — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:52:45 GMT

Again i say change both the variables to type string. then use your old code

Re: Comoparing Strings 'CO'

Former Member — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:52:50 GMT

tparam has only '90' no spaces. Where as lvstr has 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9.

Re: Comoparing Strings 'CO'

Former Member — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:56:02 GMT

Hi,

It worked when I included a space in the string.

IF _tparam CO '1234567890 '.

l_var = _tparam.

ELSE.

l_var = 200.

ENDIF.

Can you guys explain me why it worked when we included a space ??

Thanks,

Varun

Re: Comoparing Strings 'CO'

Former Member — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:02:37 GMT

Great, and FYI, I do usually try to take care about what I write in this forum, with an occasional notable failure.

Re: Comoparing Strings 'CO'

Former Member — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:07:13 GMT

Thank you all guys for the help.