Replace all space with ~ in xstring format.

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

I am reading an XML file into a XSTRING variable and parsing the XSTRING to retrieve the data into Internal table.

What i want-

I want to replace all occurances of space in the file with some recognizable character ( say ~ ).

This i need to do once the file is read into XSTRING variable, in this xstring variable i want to replace all spaces with other character's value.

Is it feasible to replace like this in XSTRING variable for space?

In XSTRING , a space is stored '0D0A'

and i know 'replace all occurrences' works for Char type data object.

How to go about this?

Any help or clue is highly appreciated.

Regards,

[Former Member]

I think your idea works.

Just am not sure how you refer to the Hexadecimal Codes. I do by a 2 bytes character, for instance - A is coded like 41. Space for me is 20, not 0DA0.

Try the following example.

DATA: x TYPE xstring,
      y TYPE  string.

x = '4156524148414D'. "AVRAHAM's literal hexadecimal coding
x = '4120562052204120482041204D'. "A V R A H A M
y = x.
REPLACE ALL OCCURRENCES OF '20' IN y WITH '78'. "requires a character type input paramater, can't pass XSTRING.
x = y.

CALL FUNCTION 'HR_RU_CONVERT_HEX_TO_STRING'
  EXPORTING
    xstring       = x
 IMPORTING
   CSTRING       = y.

WRITE: /, x, / ,y.

I pass the following string to the function: 'A V R A H A M'

and I print in the screen the following one: 'AxVxRxAxHxAxM'. 78 is 'x' hexadecimal code.

Hope it helps.

Avraham

Edited by: Avraham Kahana on Jan 21, 2009 4:44 PM

[Former Member]

Hi,

Convert the XSTRING ti String and replace the space woth '~' and then convert to xstring.

Check these FM

HR_KR_STRING_TO_XSTRING

HR_KR_XSTRING_TO_STRING

[tushar_shukla]

Have you tried below construct ?

REPLACE ......IN BYTE MODE ...

Thanks,

Tushar