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contains pattern

Former Member — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:43:06 GMT

Hi All,

one of my int table field will be like this

" Material 000000000075008845"

" Material 000000000013245678".

please note space before letter "M" and a space between letter "l" and number zero ,and also letter"M" will be in caps.

Here i want to check whether my field contains like this " Material 000000000075007654" or not.

could anybody help?

Thanks,

Ponraj.s.

Re: contains pattern

Former Member — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:47:07 GMT

Hi ponraj,

1. We can use CS

2. if field1 CS ' Material 000000000075007654'

*----

code

endif.

regards,

amit m.

Re: contains pattern

Former Member — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:50:46 GMT

Hi Ponraj,

Just check these Examples:-

CP (Contains Pattern):

The complete string c1 matches the pattern c2 (c1 "matches"

c2).

The pattern c2 can contain ordinary characters and

wildcards.

'*' stands for any character string and '+' denotes any

character.

If the result of the comparison is positive, the system

field SY-FDPOS contains the offset of the first character

of c2 in c1. The wildcard character '*' at the beginning of

the pattern c2 is ignored when determining the value of

SY-FDPOS.

If the result of the comparison is negative, the system

field SY-FDPOS contains the length of c1.

Examples:

'ABCDE' CP 'CD' is true; SY-FDPOS = 2.

'ABCDE' CP '*CD' is false; SY-FDPOS = 5.

'ABCDE' CP '+CD' is true; SY-FDPOS = 0.

'ABCDE' CP '+CD*' is false; SY-FDPOS = 5.

'ABCDE' CP 'BD*' is true; SY-FDPOS = 1.

The character '#' has a special meaning. It serves as an

escape symbol and indicates that the very next character

should be compared "exactly".

This allows you to search for:

- characters in upper or lower case

e.g.: c1 CP '#A#b'

- the wildcard characters '*', '+' themselves

e.g.: c1 CP '#' or c1 CP '#+*'

- the escape symbol itself

e.g.: c1 CP '##'

- blanks at the end of c1

e.g.: c1 CP '*# '

If c2 does not contain the wildcard character '*', the

shorter field is padded with "soft blanks" to bring it up

to the length of the longer field.

Examples:

'ABC' CP 'ABC ' is true,

'ABC ' CP 'ABC' is true,

but

'ABC' CP 'ABC+' is false,

'ABC' CP 'ABC# ' is false,

because a "soft blank" is neither any character ('+') nor a

"real" blank ('# ').

The escape symbol does not affect the length of f2 ('A#a#B'

still has the length 3).

The comparison is not case-sensitive.

Hope this helps u.

Regards

Sachin

Re: contains pattern

Former Member — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:53:47 GMT

Hi,

Try this

Itab-material cp '# Material# ++++++++++++++++++'

Note: 1. There is a space immediately after '#'.

2. And there are 18 '+' sign.

Reward if useful.

Message was edited by: vinodh balasubramaniam