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split at dynamic seperator

cdric_jordi — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:12:22 GMT

Hi Community,

I have the following problem.

I have to split a string at a dynamic separator.

I collect the separator from a customizing table. In the debugger I can see the correct separator in the field-symbol, but it does not split the string.

When I hardcode the same separator it works without a problem. In the debugger the separator (hardcoded or dynamic from table) is the same.

Works:

ASSIGN ' INTO:

TABLE it_bcode_value IN CHARACTER MODE.

Doesn't work:

ASSIGN ls_bcode_def-separator TO INTO:

TABLE it_bcode_value IN CHARACTER MODE.

Does anyone have some advice for me?

Thanks,

Cédric

Re: split at dynamic seperator

Former Member — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:21:58 GMT

Change the code to assign the value of value to the field symbol. SO, it would be like,


ASSIGN (ls_bcode_def-separator) TO <sep>.

SPLIT gv_bcode_value AT <sep> INTO:
TABLE it_bcode_value IN CHARACTER MODE.

Check for the opening and closing brackets that i have added for the field ls_bcode_def-separator.

Regards

Ranganath

Re: split at dynamic seperator

Former Member — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:29:11 GMT

Hi Cedric,

I tried to pass the seperator through a parameter to make it dynamic and it worked for me.

You may want to look into the type of Field symbol. I assigned it type ANY.

Hope it works.

Khushboo.

Re: split at dynamic seperator

Former Member — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:31:39 GMT

Hm,

maybe it is a length problem, if ls_bcode_def-separator has trailing spaces.

What is the value of <sep> in both cases in debugger (hexadecimal) ?

Maybe you should move it to a string field without trailing spaces and use this instead.

Regards,

Klaus

Re: split at dynamic seperator

cdric_jordi — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:31:57 GMT

Hi Ranganath,

the problem is not assigning the FS. The problem is the split part. It does also not work when I write the code without FS:

SPLIT gv_bcode_value AT ls_bcode_def-separator INTO:
  TABLE it_bcode_value IN CHARACTER MODE.

Thanks,

Cédric

Re: split at dynamic seperator

cdric_jordi — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:36:04 GMT

Thanks a lot Klaus.

This is the solution.

DATA: lv_sep type string.

move ls_bcode_def-separator to lv_sep.

  SPLIT gv_bcode_value AT lv_sep INTO:
  TABLE it_bcode_value IN CHARACTER MODE.

Regards,

Cédric

Re: split at dynamic seperator

Former Member — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:44:24 GMT

I agree to the Klaus comment, it might be because of the trailing space. I have tried three option, in two of them it worked,

Works- Case 1


data : it_bcode_value type STANDARD TABLE OF string.
data : gv_bcode_value type string value '123<1D>456',
       sep type char4 value '<1D>'.
FIELD-SYMBOLS : <sep> type any.

ASSIGN sep TO <sep>.

SPLIT gv_bcode_value AT <sep> INTO:
TABLE it_bcode_value IN CHARACTER MODE.

Works - Case 2


data : it_bcode_value type STANDARD TABLE OF string.
data : gv_bcode_value type string value '123<1D>456',
       sep type char4 value '<1D>'.
FIELD-SYMBOLS : <sep> type any.

SPLIT gv_bcode_value AT sep INTO:
TABLE it_bcode_value IN CHARACTER MODE.

Now if i change the lenght of sperator to CHAR5 instead of CHAR4 in the second case, it does not work.

Does not Work


data : it_bcode_value type STANDARD TABLE OF string.
data : gv_bcode_value type string value '123<1D>456',
       sep type char5 value '<1D>'.
FIELD-SYMBOLS : <sep> type any.

SPLIT gv_bcode_value AT sep INTO:
TABLE it_bcode_value IN CHARACTER MODE.

Regards

Ranganath