Strings Operations

[Former Member]

Hi. I have the follow problem.

Data: a(16) TYPE c.

How can I do to get the last ten digits of this data, if this variable not always has the same number of characters???

For example:

a = '123456789abcdefg' OR

a = '123456789abc'.

[Former Member]

try to do this:

Data: a(16) TYPE c.
data: leng type i,
      first type i.
data: last10(10) type c.

leng = strlen( a ).
first = leng - 10.

last10 = a+first(10).

[Former Member]

use :

a+n

a(n)

a+n(n)

where n is the position to move the cursor or the number of char to get..

For example:

a = '123456789abcdefg'

a(3) = '123'.

a+4(5) = '5678a'.

[Former Member]

Hi,

check this example.

DATA: a(16) TYPE c.
  DATA: b(10) TYPE c.

  DATA: len  TYPE i.

  a = '123456789abcdefg'.

  len = STRLEN( a ).

  len = len - 10.

  b = a+len(10).

  WRITE: / b.

THanks

Naren

[Former Member]

small change in above code

DATA: a(16) TYPE c.

DATA: b(10) TYPE c.

DATA: len TYPE i.

a = '123456789abcdefg'.

len = STRLEN( a ).

if len Gt 10.

len = len - 10.

b = a+len(10).

else.

b = a.

endif.

WRITE: / b.