How to fill variable in product basic text?

[Former Member]

Hi,

in product master, for any product/service we have a set type: texts. under this,  we have text category basic text.

This text may have variables like: %product_end_date%.

how to fill such variables in abap code when we read this text?

[former_member16322]

Use REPLACE statement.

For example

DATA:

     l_text TYPE string,

     l_product_end_date TYPE c     " Program Variable containing value

     .

REPLACE ALL OCCURRENCES OF '%product_end_date%' IN l_text WITH l_product_end_date .

You may need to do some explicit type conversions if the variable's data is in a type other then character.

[Former Member]

Hi Steve,

Is this the standard way to fill such variables?

[former_member16322]

Replace is the standard way to replace one character string with another from with in a character string; if you want to view standard code that does something similar, look at Function MESSAGE_TEXT_BUILD. It is slightly different because it does not use named variable place holders and instead just uses & symbols to indicate variables; however, it should illustrate replacing variables in a text string.