topic Re: How to fill variable in product basic text? in Application Development and Automation Discussions

How to fill variable in product basic text?

Former Member — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:10:59 GMT

Hi,

in product master, for any product/service we have a set type: texts. under this, we have text category basic text.

This text may have variables like: %product_end_date%.

how to fill such variables in abap code when we read this text?

Re: How to fill variable in product basic text?

former_member16322 — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:18:28 GMT

Use REPLACE statement.

For example

DATA:

l_text TYPE string,

l_product_end_date TYPE c " Program Variable containing value

REPLACE ALL OCCURRENCES OF '%product_end_date%' IN l_text WITH l_product_end_date .

You may need to do some explicit type conversions if the variable's data is in a type other then character.

Re: How to fill variable in product basic text?

Former Member — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:30:33 GMT

Hi Steve,

Is this the standard way to fill such variables?

Re: How to fill variable in product basic text?

former_member16322 — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:25:32 GMT

Replace is the standard way to replace one character string with another from with in a character string; if you want to view standard code that does something similar, look at Function MESSAGE_TEXT_BUILD. It is slightly different because it does not use named variable place holders and instead just uses & symbols to indicate variables; however, it should illustrate replacing variables in a text string.