Remove # from string

[Former Member]

hello,

I've got the following problem

I receive an xml string with some '#' characters and would like to remove them

I know that replace ... '#' doesn't work because it's not actually the char '#' that should be removed but it's a

hexadecimal character (I think it's a blanc)

any ideas on how to do this ?

regards

[former_member209217]

Hi,

Switch to debugging mode .Check this character in debugging mode and try to find wat exactly this character is?

I thnk that the characters which are not interpreted by SAP are shown as #. It means that characters which cannot be printed are

shown as #.

Regards,

Lakshman.

[former_member396337]

symbol is used for new line carried feed variable. It can be replaced with the following code.( will be used in Long Text to ALV )

REPLACE ALL OCCURRENCES OF CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES=>NEWLINE IN < your String > WITH SPACE.

Regards.

Nawal

[kesavadas_thekkillath]

check with replace in byte mode

[former_member459142]

hiiii

REPLACE ALL OCCURRENCES OF '#' IN your_variable WITH ' '.

It should work.

Thanks & Regards

Prashant Gupta

[Former Member]

Hi,

1. characters cannot be removed because they are actaully hexadecimal charcters like horizontal tabs etc.

Use the class CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES and the HORIZONTAL_TAB attribute or other relevant one so that you can remove the #.

Regards,

Subhashini

[Former Member]

Hi,

1. symbol is used for new line carried feed variable. It can be replaced with the following code.

Replace all occurances of CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES=>HORIZONTAL_TAB in string with space

or

Replace all occurances of CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES=>NEWLINE in string with space.

Regards,

Vik

[Former Member]

thanks for your replies

I've used the class CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES but none of the provided attributes (CR_LF, horizontal_tab, ..) work

I think that's it's a hex blanc that should be removed

[Former Member]

Hi,

If you can go to the debugger and at the right of the field value we have a hex viewer click on that and see what is the value of the space in HEX then in your code declare a variable as hex and try to replace it as below.

 

data: lv_char type 'X' value '09'.

replace lv_char with space in text.

Regards,

Himanshu

[SuhaSaha]

Hello,

I think in debugging you should check the hex value for this #.

This will give you an idea which value you need to replace for the class CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES viz., NEWLINE(0A), CR_LF(0D0A) etc.

Hope this helps.

BR,

Suhas

[Former Member]

Hello,

I guess you are getting this # as a result of xml transformation.

You can either use shift to shift xml string 1 place to remove '#' char or you can use offset to

replace it with space. For e.g. string+1(1) = space.

Check if this helps,

Thanks,

Augustin.

[Former Member]

thanks for the replies

solved it in another way but if someone knows the answer with hexadecimal formatting ...