Remove non-alpha numerics

[Former Member]

I have to remove any non-alpha numerics from something like:

SPMA-09-AF-M002-A7

The result would be:

SPMA09AFM002A7

Is there a function module that would do this?

Edited by: Rob Burbank on Aug 13, 2009 3:44 PM

[Former Member]

Hi,

Try SCP_REPLACE_STRANGE_CHARS or

use

REPLACE ALL OCCURRENCES OF REGEX '[^[:alnum:]]' IN text WITH ''.

Regards,

Vik

[guilherme_frisoni]

Hi,

if you know every possible non-alpha chars, you could use translate:

TRANSLATE gc_alpha USING '- '.

CONDENSE gc_alpha NO-GAPS.

Regards,

Frisoni

[Former Member]

Hi,

If it is only one special character You can try like below:

data: lv_hash value '-'.
 replace all occurences of lv_hash by space into variable.

Regards,

Himanshu

[Former Member]

Hi,

Use Replace or Split stmt to do it.

data : a(25) type c VALUE 'SPMA-09-AF-M002-A7',
       a1 type c value '-'.

replace  ALL OCCURRENCES OF a1 in a WITH space.

write: a.

data : begin of itab OCCURS 0,
        text(50) type c,
      end of itab.

data : a(25) type c VALUE 'SPMA-09-AF-M002-A7',
       a1 type c value '-'.

data b(50) type c.

      SPLIT a at a1 INTO TABLE itab.

      loop at itab.
        CONCATENATE itab-text
                    b
                INTO b.
       endloop.

       write b.

Thanks & regards,

ShreeMohan

[Former Member]

I don't think there is any function module for that but you can write simple code as follows.

PARAMETERS: p_string(20) TYPE c.

DATA: v_length TYPE i,
      v_offset TYPE i.

START-OF-SELECTION.
  WRITE:/ p_string.
  v_length = STRLEN( p_string ).
  CHECK v_length > 0.
  DO v_length TIMES.
    v_offset = sy-index - 1.
    IF p_string+v_offset(1) CA '0123456789' OR
       p_string+v_offset(1) CA sy-abcde.
    ELSE.
      CLEAR p_string+v_offset(1).
    ENDIF.
  ENDDO.
  CONDENSE p_string NO-GAPS.
  WRITE:/ p_string.