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Operations on text strings

Former Member — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:31:39 GMT

Hi experts,

I have a situation wherein i have to compare the text strings and if it matches i want to copy the below lines to an internal table until it faces some other keyword. Let me explain in detail, I have an internal table like this,

summary

xxxxxx

yyyyyyy

zzzzzzz

project

aaaaaa

bbbbbb

cccccc

dddddd

Now i want to search for summary in the above itab and i want to copy the contents under summary(3 lines here) to another internal table until it encounters project. And I want do same for project also. Pls help me.

Points assured

Regards

Tharanatha

Re: Operations on text strings

Former Member — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:39:02 GMT

your requirement is still not clear, see again if you can edit your question and add some more info.

Cheers!!!

Re: Operations on text strings

Former Member — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:52:16 GMT

Is this the sort of thing you need?

Jonathan

report zlocal_jc_split_internal_table.

start-of-selection.
  perform split.

*&---------------------------------------------------------------------*
*&      Form  split
*&---------------------------------------------------------------------*
form split.

  data:
    l_text(10)          type c,
    l_which_tab(1)      type c,
    lt_data             like l_text occurs 10,
    lt_summ             like l_text occurs 10,
    lt_proj             like l_text occurs 10.

  perform data_load  "load sample data into memory
    tables
      lt_data.

  loop at lt_data into l_text.
*
*" Flag which table to write to
*
    case l_text.
      when 'summary'.
        l_which_tab = 'S'.
        continue.
      when 'project'.
        l_which_tab = 'P'.
        continue.
*" etc
    endcase.
*
*" Add the data to the appropriate table
*
    case l_which_tab.
      when 'S'.
        append l_text to lt_summ.
      when 'P'.
        append l_text to lt_proj.
    endcase.

  endloop.
*
*" End - lt_summ and lt_proj will be filled
*
break-point.  "check it worked!!

endform.                    "split

*&---------------------------------------------------------------------*
*&      Form  data_load
*&---------------------------------------------------------------------*
form data_load
  tables
    ot_data.

  clear: ot_data, ot_data[].

  append 'summary' to ot_data.
  append 'xxxxxx'  to ot_data.
  append 'yyyyyyy' to ot_data.
  append 'zzzzzzz' to ot_data.
  append 'project' to ot_data.
  append 'aaaaaa'  to ot_data.
  append 'bbbbbb'  to ot_data.
  append 'cccccc'  to ot_data.
  append 'dddddd'  to ot_data.

endform.                    "data_load

Re: Operations on text strings

Former Member — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:54:01 GMT

Hi Tripat Pal,

The thing is I have a text file like a resume. I want to to extract the contents under projects heading to an internal table and the summary contents to another internal table and personal details to another internal table. Now assume i have uploaded the resume to an internal table, now i want to search the internal table for projects and copy the contents of the projects into another internal table and similarly for the summary and personal details. Hope you have understood my problem.

Thanks and regards,

Tharanatha

Re: Operations on text strings

former_member189059 — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:56:20 GMT

If i am right, you need to split your internal table

take one internal table with all the keywords you are searching for

loop through your main table and search for any of those keywords

if found, then start appending from sytabix + 1 (you may need a variable to store sy-tabix + 1)

but before appending, check if it exists in the keyword table

if it doesnt then append it

else ignore it and append the next statement in the required table

note: I think you would need one internal table for each keyword

ie: one for summary, one for project etc

Re: Operations on text strings

Former Member — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:57:31 GMT

CLEAR itab.

READ TABLE itab WITH KEY string = 'summary'.

IF sy-subrc EQ 0.

w_tabix = sy-tabix + 1.

LOOP AT itab FROM w_tabix.

IF itab-string EQ 'project'.

EXIT.

ELSE.

APPEND itab to itab1.

ENDIF.

ENDLOOP.

ENDIF.

Re: Operations on text strings

Former Member — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:15:07 GMT

well rajesh's solution is good enough for your requirement, do the same thing for projects and personal details.

Cheers!!!

Re: Operations on text strings

Former Member — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:55:15 GMT

!!! Check this code !!!

TYPES : BEGIN OF ty_struct ,

sv_string TYPE string,

END OF ty_struct.

DATA : itab_struct1 TYPE TABLE OF ty_struct,

wa_struct1 LIKE LINE OF itab_struct1,

itab_struct2 TYPE TABLE OF ty_struct,

wa_struct2 LIKE LINE OF itab_struct2.

wa_struct1-sv_string = 'efghijkl'.