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Replacing characters in a string

rainer_hbenthal — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 06:58:25 GMT

Hi,

with a character variable you can manipulte the contents via

var+5(02) = 'XY'.

With a string variable this is not allowed. Is there any other way of doing this except copying the string to a char variable, doing the change and copy it back? Another way of doing this concatenating the first part, the new chars and the rest together, but this is an ugly solution too....

Why is it syntactically ok to read parts of a string, but not to write? Is it because a string content is shared between several variables all pointing to the same string content?

Re: Replacing characters in a string

Former Member — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:02:14 GMT

use REPLACE ...

e.g.

DATA field(10) TYPE C.

MOVE 'ABCB' TO field.

REPLACE 'B' WITH 'string' INTO field.

DATA: pattern(6) TYPE C VALUE 'ABC',

len TYPE I,

repl_string(6) TYPE C VALUE '123456',

field(12) TYPE C VALUE 'abcdeABCDE'.

REPLACE pattern WITH repl_string INTO field.

Edited by: Sharayu Kumatkar on Dec 21, 2007 12:32 PM

Re: Replacing characters in a string

Former Member — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:02:57 GMT

try this.

REPLACE SECTION [OFFSET off] [LENGTH len] OF text WITH new.

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bhupal

Re: Replacing characters in a string

Former Member — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:03:59 GMT

Hi,

This can be done using REPLACE command.

Regards,

Lalit