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Characters operator

Former Member — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 09:34:23 GMT

Hello experts,

I want to put in IF statement a condition where I have to verify if there are 2 strings (gv_text1='PRODUCT' and gv_text2='PRODUCT2') in another string (gv_globaltext). So to delete gv_globaltext only if it contains string gv_text1 i.e. 'PRODUCT'

I want to do this dinamically and not write the 2 string explicitly like 'Product' and 'Product2'

I did the following :

If gv_globaltext CS gv_text2.
"SKIP
ELSEIF gv_globaltext CS gv_text1.
"Delete gv_globaltext
endif.

But it deletes at the end both gv_text1 and gv_text2, because both contains the word 'PRODUCT' at the beginin.

Can you please help me to solve this.

Thanks in advance

Re: Characters operator

Former Member — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 10:30:17 GMT

Hi Satish,

Sorry my bad, I didn't explain it very well. Actually, the strings are like:

'xxxProduct209112020' Product2 + date

'xxxProduct09112020' Product + date xxxx are numbers

So they are not exact

Re: Characters operator

former_member1716 — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 10:39:14 GMT

Hello essaouira,

I just checked with below test code, it works fine for me. Can you check and correct me if my understanding is wrong.

DATA: gv1 TYPE string VALUE 'PRODUCT',
      gv2 TYPE string VALUE 'PRODUCT2',
      gv3 TYPE string VALUE 'aDKHSkjxnkjproductkjdakj'.

IF  gv3 CS gv2.
  WRITE: 1.
ELSEIF gv3 CS gv1.
  WRITE: 2.
ENDIF.

Regards!

Re: Characters operator

matt — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 10:39:56 GMT

If gv_globaltext CS gv_text1 and gv_global_text NS gv_text2.
  "Delete gv_globaltext
ENDIF.

Re: Characters operator

Former Member — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 12:11:38 GMT

Thank you matthew.billingham it works. and just one more question please. Suppose if we want the inverse (delete gs_text2 only) how can we do it please? (because with the same code it's not working)

Re: Characters operator

matt — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 18:18:49 GMT

You really need to read the documentation of what CS and NS mean. It is trivially obvious why, with gv_text2 = 'PRODUCT2' and gv_text1 = 'PRODUCT',

If gv_globaltext CS gv_text2 and gv_global_text NS gv_text1.
  "Delete gv_globaltext
ENDIF.<br>

doesn't work.

Maybe a quick look at how boolean operations like AND work would be of value also. I'm not going to assist further: I was happy to help with some syntax, but as far as I'm concerned this site doesn't exist to teach basic programming. Programming by guessing is never going to work - you have to understand what you are doing and why.

Re: Characters operator

Pankaj_Gupta — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 18:20:57 GMT

If you want to delete the GV_GLOBAL_TEXT if it contains GV_TEXT2 and not GV_TEXT1, then it is not possible as in your example, GV_TEXT2 itself contain GV_TEXT1.