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Need help in Regular expressions

former_member261348 — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 20:52:49 GMT

Hello experts,

I need help with the regular expressions. I have tried my best but could not achieve. My requirement is to check a variable for pattern like number + alphabet i.e 12c, 150b, 2500c, 1b Last digit should always be either c or b, there should be only a number before b or c. Please help me in this regard.

Thanks,

Petru

Re: Need help in Regular expressions

Former Member — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 21:12:33 GMT

This can be done by some simple conditions as below.

For e.g. your alphanumeric variable is p_test below logic can be used to check the condition

DATA: lv_len TYPE i,
      lv_last TYPE i,
      p_test type char20.

CONDENSE p_test.
lv_len = STRLEN( p_test ).
lv_last = lv_len - 1.

IF p_test+0(lv_last) CO '1234567890' AND
( p_test+lv_last(lv_len) EQ 'B' OR p_test+lv_last(lv_len) EQ 'C' ).
.....
...
..
...
ENDIF.

Re: Need help in Regular expressions

raghug — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 21:47:58 GMT

[[:digit:]]+[bc]

\d+[bc]

[0-9]+[bc]

Both [[:digit:]] and \d mean the same thing and is essentially the same as [0-9] meaning any number between 0 and 9. The '+' means 1 or more occurrences; if you want zero or more, use '*' instead. The [bc] means either b or c.

Re: Need help in Regular expressions

raghug — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 22:04:34 GMT

And you get a short dump - At the end what you are doing for a 15 digit pattern (example: 12345678901234c) is p_test+14(15). You will get an error CX_SY_RANGE_OUT_OF_BOUNDS. Even with this the IF statement should be...

IF p_test+0(lv_last) CO '1234567890' AND
( p_test+lv_last(1) EQ 'B' OR p_test+lv_last(1) EQ 'C' ).

Re: Need help in Regular expressions

former_member183045 — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 22:11:40 GMT

If you want to match e.g. 123c but not a123c then you should add the \b (word boundary) token.

\b[0-9]+[bc]\b

But there are a lot of more possibilities which you can best explore in one of the numerous online regex tester sides like

https://regex101.com/ as regex expressions are not an ABAP topic only

Re: Need help in Regular expressions

retired_member — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 10:17:44 GMT

You can play with program DEMO_REGEX_TOY.