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String Replace beside first character

Former Member — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 07:59:14 GMT

Hello,

I am new to ABAP and I need some help for a project.

I have some data (NAME1, NAME2), the value is a string for example John Doe.

I need to anonymize this data because its showing on some reports, so I want to make a check and take all the values and change them in J*** D** , i need 1st letter to stay unchanged and the rest of the characters to be changed to ' * ' .

I need to make this to a whole table with names.

I know that i need to use REPLACE IN WITH statement but i don't know how to keep the first character and change the others.

Re: String Replace beside first character

Abinathsiva — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 08:05:52 GMT

Hi Bogdan,

String handling in ABAP link can help. Stings in SAP and String processing in SAP through ABAP

Regards,

Abinath

Re: String Replace beside first character

maheshpalavalli — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 08:37:51 GMT

Try this.

REPLACE ALL OCCURRENCES OF REGEX '\B.' IN name1
                      WITH '*'.
or 

name1 = replace( val = name1 with = '*' regex = '\B.' occ = '0' ).

Re: String Replace beside first character

Sandra_Rossi — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 08:54:49 GMT

For information, the regular expression \B. means any character (.) which is inside the boundary characters of a word (\B).

Re: String Replace beside first character

irfanjazz1 — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:14:25 GMT

data: name1 type char10,
      name2 type char10,
      v1 type char1,
      v2 type char1.


name1 = 'John'.
name2 = 'Deo'.
v1 = name1.
v2 = name2.

concatenate v1'***' v2'***' into name1.
break-point.

Re: String Replace beside first character

venkateswaran_k — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:23:51 GMT

You can try this - I tried this - it works -

name1 = 'ALLEXCEPTFIRSTCHAR'.
mask_length = strlen( my_var ) - 1.    
name1 = replace( val = name1
                  off = 1
                  len = mask_length
                  with = repeat( val = '*' occ = mask_length ) ).

I tested it and it is working as expected.

Re: String Replace beside first character

Former Member — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 11:32:52 GMT

Found the answer, thank you

Re: String Replace beside first character

venkateswaran_k — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 11:41:12 GMT

Hope this works for you

Re: String Replace beside first character

former_member641357 — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 11:53:29 GMT

DATA : var1 type string VALUE 'John Doe'
      , var2 TYPE string
       , varfinal TYPE char32
       , varfinal1 TYPE char32
       , varfinal2 TYPE char32
       , str TYPE char32
       , len TYPE i
       , len1 type i.

SPLIT var1 at space INTO : data(str1) data(str2)  .
len = strlen( str1 ).
len1 = len - 1.
var2 = repeat( val = '*' occ = len1 ).

CONCATENATE str1(1) var2 into varfinal1.
*write : ' Anonymous Text is :' , varfinal1.

len = strlen( str2 ).
len1 = len - 1.
var2 = repeat( val = '*' occ = len1 ).
CONCATENATE str2(1) var2 into varfinal2.
*write : ' Anonymous Text is :' , varfinal2.
CONCATENATE varfinal1 varfinal2 INTO varfinal SEPARATED BY space.
write : ' Anonymous Text is :' , varfinal.

Re: String Replace beside first character

former_member641357 — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 11:55:32 GMT

result is :

Anonymous Text is : J*** D**

Re: String Replace beside first character

venkateswaran_k — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 14:04:08 GMT

If you find the answer, please mark the right one and close the thread. Curios to know that