format change for field

[Former Member]

I am having a field of char type with the format

9/1/4519 I want its value to be 9\1\4519 otherwise it is creating problem in excel sheet.

how to do it.

[Former Member]

use REPLACE <str1> WITH <str2> INTO <c> [LENGTH <l>].

hope will work

[Former Member]

Here is the example

see to it..

DATA: T(10) VALUE '9/02/2008',

STRING LIKE T,

STR1(4) VALUE '/',

STR2(4) VALUE '\',

STR3(2) VALUE 'kl',

STR4(6) VALUE 'klmnop',

LEN TYPE I VALUE 2.

STRING = T.

WRITE STRING.

REPLACE STR1 WITH STR2 INTO STRING.

WRITE / STRING.

The output appears as follows:

9/02/2008

9\02\2008

Regards

Manish.

[Former Member]

demo code for replace:

DATA: T(10) VALUE 'abcdefghij',

STRING LIKE T,

STR1(4) VALUE 'cdef',

STR2(4) VALUE 'klmn',

STR3(2) VALUE 'kl',

STR4(6) VALUE 'klmnop',

LEN TYPE I VALUE 2.

STRING = T.

WRITE STRING.

REPLACE STR1 WITH STR2 INTO STRING.

WRITE / STRING.

STRING = T.

REPLACE STR1 WITH STR2 INTO STRING LENGTH LEN.

WRITE / STRING.

STRING = T.

REPLACE STR1 WITH STR3 INTO STRING.

WRITE / STRING.

STRING = T.

REPLACE STR1 WITH STR4 INTO STRING.

WRITE / STRING.

The output appears as follows:

abcdefghij

abklmnghij

abklmnefgh

abklghij

abklmnopgh

[Former Member]

Hi,

before processing it into Excel sheet. Loop the intenal table and chage that particular field as.

replace all occurrences of '/' in field name with '\'.

modify the internal table by transfering the field.

Thanks,

Arunprasad.P

[Former Member]

hi,

try out this . this will transalte every occurance of / with \

data: a(8) type c.

a = '9/1/4519'.

TRANSLATE a USING '/\'.

write : a.

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