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String manipulation

Former Member — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:42:54 GMT

I’m bit new to ABAP and need help on this.

I'm getting a string value from a form field and want to make sure user enters the right value.

User allowed to enter values with or without 2 dashes.

The expected string could be: 9 numbers (‘123-456-789’ or ‘123456789’ ) or 8 numbers (’12-345-678’ or ‘12345678’). No alpha is allowed apart from dash.

If user enters 9 digits with 2 dashes (‘123-456-789’ which is 11 character) or with out 2 dashes (‘123456789’ which is 9 character); I need to strip out the dashes ‘-‘ (if there is any) and then assign each of the numbers to variables e.g. n1 = 1, n2 = 2, n3 = 3, n4 = 4, n5 = 5, n6 = 6, n7 = 7, n8 = 8, n9 = 9 to do some calculations.

If user enters 8 digits with 2 dashes (’12-345-678’ which is 10 character) or with out 2 dashes (‘12345678’ which is 8 character long); I need to strip out the dashes ‘-‘ (if there is any) and then add a leading ‘0’ to make 9 digit and then assign each of the numbers to variables e.g. n1 = 0, n2 = 1, n3 = 2, n4 = 3, n5 = 4, n6 = 5, n7 = 6, n8 = 7, n9 = 8 to do some calculations.

Please help me out.

Kind regards.

Re: String manipulation

Former Member — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:54:54 GMT

Hi,

Guess there is no std functionality to achieve this directly. You will have to write your own code. May be you can create a Function module.

Cheers

Re: String manipulation

Former Member — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 05:07:18 GMT

len = strlen(v_string).

if len = 8 or len = 10.
  replace all occurrences of '-' in v_string with space.
   condense v_string.
   concatenate '0' v_string into v_string.
   n1 = v_string+0(1).
   n2 = v_string+1(1).
   n3 = v_string+2(1).
   n4 = v_string+3(1).
   n5 = v_string+4(1).
   n6 = v_string+5(1).
   n7 = v_string+6(1).
   n8 = v_string+7(1).
   n9 = v_string+8(1).
elseif len = 9 or len = 11.
 replace all occurrences of '-' in v_string with space.
 condense v_string.
   v1 = v_string+0(1).
   v2 = v_string+1(1).
   v3 = v_string+2(1).
   v4 = v_string+3(1).
   v5 = v_string+4(1).
   v6 = v_string+5(1).
   v7 = v_string+6(1).
   v8 = v_string+7(1).
   v9 = v_string+8(1).

endif.

Message was edited by:

chandrasekhar jagarlamudi

Re: String manipulation

Former Member — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 05:10:20 GMT

Hi Nazmul

Please check below code:

data: var_in(11) type c value '12-345-678',
      var_out(9) type n.

replace all occurences of '-' in var_in with space.
condense var_in.

CALL FUNCTION 'CONVERSION_EXIT_ALPHA_INPUT'
  EXPORTING
    INPUT         = var_in
 IMPORTING
   OUTPUT        = var_out.

break-point.

Check the value of var_out.

Now i guess you can split for further processing..

Kind Regards

Eswar

Re: String manipulation

Former Member — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 05:18:51 GMT

Hi ,

Let the name of your string be v_string....then write the following code.

replace all occurrences of '-' in v_string with space.

condense v_string.

overlay v_string with '000000000'.

n1 = v_string+0(1).

n2 = v_string+1(1).

n3 = v_string+2(1).

n4 = v_string+3(1).

n5 = v_string+4(1).

n6 = v_string+5(1).

n7 = v_string+6(1).

n8 = v_string+7(1).

n9 = v_string+8(1).

This will surely solve your problem.

Cheers,

Kirti

Re: String manipulation

Former Member — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 05:34:41 GMT

Copy this code and execute it.

data : n1,n2,n3,n4,n5,n6,n7,n8,n9,n10.

PARAMETERS NUM(15) TYPE C.

WRITE NUM COLOR 7.

TRANSLATE NUM USING '- '.

CONDENSE NUM NO-GAPS.

n1 = num(1).

n2 = num+1(1).

n3 = num+2(1).

n4 = num+3(1).

n5 = num+4(1).

n6 = num+5(1).

n7 = num+6(1).

n8 = num+7(1).

n9 = num+8(1).

n10 = num+9(1).

WRITE : /20 n1 COLOR 5.

write : / n2.

write : / n3.

write : / n4.

write : / n5.

write : / n6.

write : / n7.

write : / n8.

write : / n9.

write : / n10.

Re: String manipulation

Former Member — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:09:32 GMT

hi nazmul,

Welcome to d SDN community

this is a very easy and simple program

i hav tested it and i think this will fulfill ur needs

data: lv_len type i,

lv_string(12)..

****lv_string contains the number string

lv_len = strlen( lv_string ).

case lv_len.

when '8'.

****8 numbers

****concatenate 0

concatenate '0' lv_string into lv_string.

perform data_get using lv_string.

when '9'.

****9 numbers

perform data_get using lv_string.

when '10'.

*****8 numbers with 2 dashes

replace '-' with SPACE into lv_string.

condense lv_string no-gaps.

concatenate '0' lv_string into lv_string.

perform data_get using lv_string.

when '11'.

*****9 numbers with 2 dashes

replace '-' with SPACE into lv_string.

condense lv_string no-gaps.

perform data_get using lv_string.

endcase.

endform. " sdn_prog1

form data_get using p_string .

data:

n1(1),n2(1),n3(1),n4(1),n5(1),

n6(1),n7(1),n8(1),n9(1).

n1 = p_string+0(1).

n2 = p_string+1(1).

****Assign the values to variables

endform.

***Mark points if helpful***

Regards,

Re: String manipulation

Former Member — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:10:00 GMT

Thanks a lot to those answred. I'm impressed for quick answers.

Thtanks again all.