topic Re: substrings in ABAP ? in Application Development and Automation Discussions

substrings in ABAP ?

Former Member — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:09:27 GMT

I am trying to convert a value from a string or a number.

I just want to grab either the first number or the first character

of one variable and assign it to another variable.

How do I do this?

How do I do this if I'm trying to return just the third character or number in the value?

Where could I have looked this up myself in the documentation?

Former Member — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:11:47 GMT

You can take the offset like...

say u want the first character of variable v1 you take it as v2 = v1+0(1)

for 3rd character v2 = v1+2(1)

You can do f1 on your code and go to the operations on strings. you can get the help there.

Former Member — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:12:14 GMT

Hi,

DATA: V_CHAR8(8) VALUE '12345678'.

DATA: V_CHAR.

V_CHAR = V_CHAR8(1).

Thanks,

Naren

Former Member — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:12:21 GMT

This can be achieved using offset: Is this what you are looking for?

data: str(3) type c value 'xyz'.

write:/ str+1(2). "Extract two chars starting from position 1.

Output: xy.

Thanks,

Santosh