Selection Screen error message

[Former Member]

Hi

reference no (p_ref) is in my selection screen.

If this field contains special characters (\ / : * ? " < > |, ) system must prompt error in selection screen. How to do this. Pls help me

Regards

Anbu

[former_member195383]

use this inside a subroutine.. after start of selection

PERFORM Validations.

:

:

:

FORM Validations.

if pa_fpath CS '\' or

pa_fpath CS '*' or

pa_fpath CS '/' .

MESSAGE e999 WITH 'Special chars not allowed'.

endif.

endform.

use above...

Reward points...if its useful...

Regards

Rudra

Edited by: Rudra Prasanna Mohapatra on Jun 17, 2008 8:02 AM

[Former Member]

try this;

PARAMETERS p_var TYPE char30.
CONSTANTS c_invalid_characters(6) VALUE '%&?*+-'. "variable length has to be consistent with content length

AT SELECTION-SCREEN.

  IF p_var CA c_invalid_characters.
    MESSAGE e001(00).
  ENDIF.

[Former Member]

Hi,

PARAMETERS p_var TYPE char10.

AT SELECTION-SCREEN.

IF p_var NE '\' OR '/' OR ':' .

MESSAGE e000(00).

ENDIF.