topic Re: Escape Sequence in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Escape Sequence

Former Member — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:27:05 GMT

Hi Experts,

maybe this question is far to simple, but I just can't find out what escape sequences to use for ABAP.

The problem ist, that I want to build a string via CONCATENATE like:

CONCATENATE '/'' <fs>-field '/'' INTO string.

The string shall look like 'value_from_<fs>-field' . The / are the wrong escape characters here. My question is what character do I have to use?

Regards

Torsten

former_member189059 — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:37:15 GMT

try this

data: output(40).
concatenate 'field1' '''' 'field2' into output.
write:/ output.

is this what you want ?

the '' is the escape sequence for apostrophe and since it is a string type, it should be enclosed in another set of ''

hence it becomes ''''

Message was edited by:

Kris Donald

Former Member — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:39:01 GMT

Just write this:

variable = <fs_field>.

write: / variable.

Regards

Preeti

Former Member — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:00:09 GMT

Hi Kris,

yes '''' was what I was looking for. Is ' the general escape character for ABAP?

Regards

Torsten

former_member189059 — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:52:24 GMT

Hello Torsten,

I'm not sure, but when it comes to strings, only the apostrophe needs an escape sequence since everything else is accepted as a character

Former Member — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:25:43 GMT

Thanks Kris, that should do it for now.