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Search in a String

former_member868274 — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 14:27:10 GMT

Hey Guys,

I have the following String : DATA : lt_kl TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF /bic/pmihklassi.

I am searching for a way to just take the name of the Internal table 'lt_kl' out of that

String and writing it into a variable.

Thank you for your help.

Re: Search in a String

RaymondGiuseppi — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 15:00:57 GMT

What did you already perform (Statements such as FIND, String functions, or?)

Re: Search in a String

matt — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 15:39:25 GMT

Do some code analysis, I guess?

Tokenise the code and it becomes a bit easier. See here: https://help.sap.com/doc/abapdocu_752_index_htm/7.52/en-US/abapscan.htm

Re: Search in a String

Patrice — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 15:41:36 GMT

Hi Michel,

From what I understand, you have a string containing an ABAP command ("DATA : lt_kl TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF /bic/pmihklassi") and you want to parse that string to get the table name.

There are many possible solutions. I would recommend command SPLIT.. AT space INTO TABLE... , to have an internal table that would contain "DATA" in the first record, ":" in the second and "lt_kl" in the third. If you are not sure if you have a ":" or not between "DATA" and the table name, you can loop on the records, starting on the second one, and take the first record that is not equal to ":".

I hope this helps.

Patrice Poirier

Re: Search in a String

Sandra_Rossi — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 16:55:30 GMT

Many different solutions, depending on the exact use case. What is it for? (ATC/code inspector, extraction to external software, source scan, etc.)