Replace Character with Space

[Former Member]

We need to replace dashes in a string with a space.

DATA result TYPE string.
result = 'Hello--World!'.
REPLACE ALL OCCURRENCES OF '-' IN result WITH ' '.

However ABAP compresses all space and the result is

'HelloWorld!'

[Former Member]

Try this.

DATA result TYPE string.
DATA blank TYPE c LENGTH 20.
result = 'Hello--World!'.
OVERLAY result WITH blank ONLY '-'.
WRITE:/ result.

REPLACE statement does not respect blanks, OVERLAY does.

[Former Member]

Hello

If you unnecessary to use REPLACE ALL OCCURRENCES, that try this way:

DATA result TYPE string.
result = 'Hello--World!'.
translate result using '- '.
condense result.
write result.

[former_member670996]

is this work in amdp eclipse?

[Former Member]

have you searched SDN??

any ways...try the below one.. its a backquote

data : s1 type string value 'Hello--World!'.
replace all OCCURRENCEs OF `-` IN s1 WITH ` `. "this is the quote near by 1 in keyboard...
WRITE s1.