Translate string using hex(0020) in Unicode system.

[Former Member]

Hello all,

We are facing a problem of the "translate" statement in the Unicode system.

The original statement goes as follows:

TRANSLATE BULOG USING WS_STRING1.

Here BULOG is a structure and ws_string1 is declared as follows:

DATA : ws_string1(2) type x value '0020'.

On compilation in the new system which is Unicode enabled, the above mentioned statement removes all the '#' placed in the structure.

We tried the following statement instead of the original TRANSLATE statement.

TRANSLATE BULOG USING SPACE.

But this statement leaves the '#' unchanged.

We have already REPLACE statement after converting the structure contents into a string.

We have also tried the convert methods of the classes CL_ABAP_CONV_IN_CE and CL_ABAP_CONV_OUT_CE.

Hoping to receive a fast response.

Thanks in advance.

Zankruti.

[Former Member]

Hello all,

We are facing a problem of the "translate" statement in the Unicode system.

The original statement goes as follows:

TRANSLATE BULOG USING WS_STRING1.

Here BULOG is a structure and ws_string1 is declared as follows:

DATA : ws_string1(2) type x value '0020'.

On compilation in the new system which is Unicode enabled, the above mentioned statement removes all the '#' placed in the structure.

We tried the following statement instead of the original TRANSLATE statement.

TRANSLATE BULOG USING SPACE.

But this statement leaves the '#' unchanged.

We have already REPLACE statement after converting the structure contents into a string.

We have also tried the convert methods of the classes CL_ABAP_CONV_IN_CE and CL_ABAP_CONV_OUT_CE.

Hoping to receive a fast response.

Thanks in advance.

Zankruti.

[Jelena_Perfiljeva]

You might want to read ABAP Help on TRANSLATE:

Addition 2 
... USING  pattern 

Effect 
If you specify USING, the characters in text are converted according to the rule specified in pattern. 
pattern must be a character-type data object whose contents are interpreted as a sequence of 
character pairs.

Your option 1 is not working because type X is "Byte field", technically it's not a character-type. Your option 2 is not working because <pattern> must be a sequence of character pairs (you had just SPACE).

In Option 1 just change the definition from X to C or STRING.