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remove special chars from a string

Former Member — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:46:03 GMT

hi could anyone please advice me...how to remove special characters from a string...

thanks in advance..

Re: remove special chars from a string

Former Member — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:49:00 GMT

chk the sample prog:

REPORT zstring.

DATA : ipstr TYPE string.

DATA : opstr TYPE string.

DATA : len TYPE i VALUE 0.

DATA : ch TYPE char1.

DATA : num TYPE i VALUE 0. "No of Characters to be taken

DATA : pos TYPE char3. "Position of Char in the Input String

*Input string

ipstr = '<FT><H><T> Line Clearance </></></>'.

*Removing only "</>"

REPLACE ALL OCCURRENCES OF '</>' IN ipstr WITH ' '.

*Removing only "<"

REPLACE ALL OCCURRENCES OF '<' IN ipstr WITH ' '.

CONDENSE ipstr.

*Length of Input String

len = STRLEN( ipstr ).

DO len TIMES.

*Char by Char

ch = ipstr+pos(1).

pos = pos + 1.

*Scan each char in input String for ">"

FIND '>' IN ch IGNORING CASE.

IF sy-subrc = 0.

num = len - pos.

*Output String

opstr = ipstr+pos(num).

ENDIF.

ENDDO.

WRITE 😕 opstr.

**reward if helpful

regards,

madhu

Re: remove special chars from a string

Simha_ — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:50:55 GMT

Hi,

CP

Covers Pattern: True, if the content of operand1 fits the pattern in operand2. Wildcard characters can be used for forming the operand2 pattern, where "" represents any character string, and "+" represents any character. Upper/lower case is not taken into account. If the comparison is true, sy-fdpos contains the offset of operand2 in operand1, whereby leading wildcard characters "" in operand2 are ignored if operand2 also contains other characters. If the comparison is false, sy-fdpos contains the length of operand1. You can select characters in operand2 for a direct comparison by adding the escape symbol "#" before the required characters. For these characters, upper/lower case is taken into account, wildcard characters and the escape symbol itself do not receive special treatment, and trailing blanks in operands of type c are not cut off.

DATA: str1 TYPE string,

str2 TYPE string.

str1 = 'ABCDEFGH'.

str2 = 'CF+H'.

IF str1 CP str2.

Use Translate keyword to remove the special characters by using space.

and after that use Condense .

Cheers,

Simha.

Reward all the helpful answers..

ENDIF.

Re: remove special chars from a string

RichHeilman — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:51:34 GMT

You can use the TRANSLATE statement or the REPLACE statement.

Regards,

Rich Heilman

Re: remove special chars from a string

Former Member — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:57:31 GMT

hI..

data: w_text(50) type C value 'Ram?mohan?45jAGAN'.

data: w_len type i,

W_OFF TYPE I.

w_len = strlen( w_text ).

do w_len times.

W_OFF = SY-INDEX - 1.

if sy-abcde cs w_text+W_OFF(1).

else.

w_text+W_OFF(1) = SPACE.

ENDIF.

ENDDO.

CONDENSE W_TEXT.

WRITE : W_TEXT.