remove character from a string

[Former Member]

wats the command to remove characters in a string?

I have to remove 'bb' from a string

[JozsefSzikszai]

hi,

you can try the REPLACE statement. There will be a space in the string instead of 'bb', which you can delete with CONDENSE ... NO-GAPS.

hope this helps

ec

[rainer_hbenthal]

If you are replacing bb by ' ' there will be a gap, but why dont you replace it by ''?

[JozsefSzikszai]

just checked:

DATA : text(10) TYPE c VALUE 'AABBCC'.

REPLACE 'BB' IN text WITH ''.

and really text is 'AACC' after the above

(I remembered so that a space was left there, even if the replacing value was 'nothing' and I had to use the CONDENSE ... NO-GAPS afterwards to delete that unnecessary space. There are two options: 1. My memories are wrong 2. It happened in earlier releases (now I tried in 4.7). Anyway, thanks for your correction!)

[rainer_hbenthal]

Just said so because the condense may delete gaps which should not be affected...

Nevertheless i cant tell you if this was working different in 4.7. i started to use this command in ERP 2005.

[Former Member]

Hello

DATA FIELD(10).
MOVE 'ABCBB' TO FIELD.
REPLACE 'BB' WITH ' ' INTO field.
CONDENSE field.

[Former Member]

Hi

DATA lv_field(5).
MOVE 'CCCBB' TO lv_field.
SEARCH lv_field FOR 'BB'.
IF sy-subrc = 0.
  REPLACE 'BB' WITH ' ' INTO lv_field.
  CONDENSE lv_field.
  WRITE lv_field.
ENDIF.

[Former Member]

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We typically delete all the questions when this is found.

Cheers,

Julius