where condition in select query

[Former Member]

my requirement is this. I want to fetch some records

from DB table. The field objnr has 12 characters.

i will supply a substring of this field. the substring

starts at the 3rd location of field.

SELECT objnr FROM cosp INTO TABLE gt_itab

WHERE objnr like srch_str.

how to do this? could u give me a possible solution?

[Sm1tje]

WHERE objnr like srch_str.

srch_str should contain ' %' sign for LIKE to work.

[Former Member]

before the select query i used this statement.

CONCATENATE '%' cntlarea '%' INTO srch_str.

but i want to search from the 2nd position.

eg: suppose objnr = KS1000AP01DESHLF .

and cntlarea = '1000'.

so the search should start at the 2nd position.

[Former Member]

Then you're going to have to go at it this way

TABLES: cosp.
DATA:
  BEGIN OF gt_itab OCCURS 0,
    objnr      LIKE cosp-objnr,
  END OF gt_itab.
DATA:
  wk_objnr      LIKE cosp-objnr,
  srch_str(22) VALUE '1000',
  ss_len       TYPE i.

START-OF-SELECTION.

  ss_len = strlen( srch_str ).

  SELECT objnr FROM cosp INTO gt_itab-objnr.

    CHECK gt_itab-objnr+2(ss_len) = srch_str.
    APPEND gt_itab.

  ENDSELECT.

Or this way.

TABLES: cosp.
DATA:
  BEGIN OF gt_itab OCCURS 0,
    objnr      LIKE cosp-objnr,
  END OF gt_itab.
DATA:
  cntlarea(22)  TYPE c  VALUE '1000',
  wk_objnr      LIKE cosp-objnr,
  srch_str(50),
  ss_len       TYPE i.

START-OF-SELECTION.

  CONCATENATE '%' cntlarea '%' INTO srch_str.

  ss_len = strlen( cntlarea ).

  SELECT objnr FROM cosp INTO gt_itab-objnr
    WHERE objnr LIKE srch_str.

    CHECK gt_itab-objnr+2(ss_len) = cntlarea.
    APPEND gt_itab.

  ENDSELECT.

Edited by: Paul Chapman on May 29, 2008 8:33 AM

[valter_oliveira]

Hello.

Do something like this.

DATA: w_obj TYPE objnr.

CONCATENATE '%' srch_str INTO w_obj.

SELECT objnr FROM cosp INTO TABLE gt_itab

WHERE objnr like w_obj.

Best regards.

Valter Oliveira.

[prasanth_kasturi]

if you want to give 3 characters ex abc

give the scrch_str as %abc%

parameters : scrch_str type string.

SELECT objnr FROM cosp INTO TABLE gt_itab

WHERE objnr like srch_str.

reward if helpful

prasanth

[Former Member]

hi,

In ABAP we have 2 types of wild characters.

One is '%' which means that it can replace any number of characters.

Another one is '_' which is underscore. it is used to replace single character. so you can use this. As the substring starts from 3rd character use 2 underscores which gets the required results.

suppose field1 is 18 characters,

field2 is 16 characters,

temp is '_'.

first take subtring into field2 then concatenate two times with '_' to string field1.so that it can take any 2 values in the records.

Hope this is helpful to you.

Reward points if helpful,

Thanks and Regards

[Former Member]

He's right..

This worked

TABLES: cosp.
DATA:
  BEGIN OF gt_itab OCCURS 0,
    objnr      LIKE cosp-objnr,
  END OF gt_itab.
DATA:
  cntlarea(22)  TYPE c  VALUE '1000',
  srch_str(50).

START-OF-SELECTION.

  CONCATENATE '__' cntlarea '%' INTO srch_str.

  SELECT objnr FROM cosp INTO table gt_itab
    WHERE objnr LIKE srch_str.

  BREAK-POINT.