Get substring after a certain pattern

[Former Member]

Hello,

I have a long string of characters (plain HTML codes in one long line) and would like to obtain a substring after a pattern. For example, part of the long string looks like this:

...abcdefg123456789...

I would like to obtain "123456789" from this long line. And I am certain the previous substring, i.e. abcdefg, is unique in this long string line.

How do I go about achieving this with ABAP code?

Thanks!

Edited by: Jay Yang on Aug 4, 2009 1:06 PM

[former_member194669]

Try to use class CL_CRM_HTML_PARSER and use method PARSE_HTML_STRING

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[Former Member]

Thanks a@s. That's a great hint! However, when I tried with method parse_html_string by passing in the long html string I have, it didn't get me the result properly. I located the part/tag I wanted from the returned part table (a SPAN tag), but the attribute simply listed the SPAN id, instead of the value between SPAN and /SPAN. Could you provide me with further hint?

Thanks again!

[former_member194669]

As per earlier reply you mentioned abcdefg is unique

then try something simple

report zars
  no standard page heading line-size 255.

data : ser type string value 'testing1234abcdefg123456789'.
data : pos type i.

search ser for 'abcdefg'.
pos = sy-fdpos + 7.
write ser+pos(9).

Will it do ?

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[Former Member]

YES! That does the trick! Thanks!