Normalising Customer Names

Former Member — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 06:43:46 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to write a utility that "normalises" customer names.

One of the things it needs to be able to do is to strip out non-alphanumeric characters.

For example: "Bill's Biscuits" would become "Bills Biscuits"

I know I can do a simple <variable> CO '0123456789ABCDEF...(etc)" to make this work for simple English characters but this needs to work in other languages (e.g. French) that have accents above the letters.

So, what I want to do is to convert the accented characters into non-accented characters. Is there a standard SAP function module that can do this? Otherwise I'm going to have to get my schoolboy French books out to find all of the possible accented characters!

Thanks,

Tristan

Re: Normalising Customer Names

andreas_mann3 — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 07:07:44 GMT

hi Tristan,

use fm prepare_string

and finally abap command condense ... no-gaps.

Re: Normalising Customer Names

Former Member — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:32:34 GMT

Hi Andreas,

Many thanks - did the trick.

Tristan

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