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How to use CA CP CO CN NA comparison operators for charecters in select

Former Member

‎2008 Feb 27 9:24 AM

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Hi Experts ,

How to use CA CP CO CN NA comparison operators for charecters in select within the where clause.

for eg : my requirement is

for field i need to validate on jobname eq SA*

jobname ne '-CA7'. with in one select query.

Thnx

Rajasekhar.

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Former Member

‎2008 Feb 27 9:30 AM

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Hi

You can use CP / CA

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/fc/eb3516358411d1829f0000e829fbfe/content.htm

Regards

shiva

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‎2008 Feb 27 9:47 AM

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Hi,

CA: Contains Any: True, if operand1 contains at least one character from operand2. Upper/lower case and trailing blanks are taken into account for both operands. If operand1 or operand2 is of type string and initial, the logical expression is always false. If result of the comparison is positive, sy-fdpos contains the offset of the first character in operand1 that is also contained in operand2. If the result of the comparison is negative, sy-fdpos contains the length of operand1.

CP: Covers Pattern: True, if the content of operand1 fits the pattern in operand2. Wildcard characters can be used for forming the operand pattern, where "" represents any character string, and "+" represents any character. Upper/lower case is not taken into account. If the comparison is true, sy-fdpos contains the offset of operand2 in operand1, whereby leading wildcard characters "" in operand2 are ignored if operand2 also contains other characters. If the comparison is false, sy-fdpos contains the length of operand1. You can select characters in operand2 for a direct comparison by adding the escape symbol "#" before the required characters. For these characters, upper/lower case is taken into account, wildcard characters and the escape symbol itself do not receive special treatment, and trailing blanks in operands of type c are not cut off.

CO: Contains Only: True, if operand1 only contains characters from operand2. Upper/lower case and trailing blanks are taken into account for both operands. If operand2 is of type string and is initial, then the logical expression is false, unless operand1 is also of type string and is initial, in which case the logical expression is always true. If the result of the comparison is negative, sy-fdpos contains the offset of the first character in operand1, that is not contained in operand2. If the result of the comparison is positive, sy-fdpos contains the length of operand1.

CN: Contains Not Only; True if a logical expression with CO is false, that is, if operand1 contains not only characters from operand2. sy-fdpos is set in the same way as for CO. If the comparison is true, sy-fdpos contains the offset of the first character in operand1 that is not contained in operand2. If the comparison is false, sy-fdpos contains the length of operand1.

NA: Contains Not Any: True if a logical expression with CA is false, that is if operand1 does not contain any characters from operand2. If the result of the comparison is negative, sy-fdpos contains the offset of the first character in operand1 that is also contained in operand2. If the result of the comparison is true, sy-fdpos contains the le of operand1.

Ex.

The logical expression in the IF statement is true, because str1 fits the pattern in str2.

DATA: str1 TYPE string,

str2 TYPE string.

str1 = 'ABCDEFGH'.

str2 = 'CF+H'.

IF str1 CP str2.

...

ENDIF.

For more examples check the following link:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/fc/eb3516358411d1829f0000e829fbfe/content.htm

Regards,

Bhaskar