Write a string separated by Hyphens.

[former_member634045]

I have a string,

lv_serial = 'ABCDEFGHIJKL1237'.

Want to write like this below,

'AB-CD-EF-GH-IJ-KL-12-37'.

Need help.

[FredericGirod]

As it is a string and you do not know the size of the input, you cannot use REGEX, WRITE ... MASK, CONCATENATE, ...

You need to do a loop in the character of the input and every 2 insert the character -

[former_member634045]

Hi frdric.girod,

I have written a code for this. But need to reduce garbage code. Complexity level is high.

lv_serial = 'ABCDEFGHIJKL1237'.


lv_pos = strlen( lv_serial ).


DO lv_pos TIMES.
  IF sy-index = 2.
    MOVE lv_serial+0(2) TO lv_serial2.
  ELSEIF sy-index = 4.
    MOVE lv_serial+2(2) TO lv_serial3.
  ELSEIF sy-index = 6.
    MOVE lv_serial+4(2) TO lv_serial4.
  ELSEIF sy-index = 8.
    MOVE lv_serial+6(2) TO lv_serial5.
  ELSEIF sy-index = 10.
    MOVE lv_serial+8(2) TO lv_serial6.
  ELSEIF sy-index = 12.
    MOVE lv_serial+10(2) TO lv_serial7.
  ELSEIF sy-index = 14.
    MOVE lv_serial+12(2) TO lv_serial8.
  ELSEIF sy-index = 16.
    MOVE lv_serial+14(2) TO lv_serial9.
  ENDIF.


ENDDO.
CONCATENATE lv_serial2 lv_serial3 lv_serial4 lv_serial5 lv_serial6 lv_serial7 lv_serial8 lv_serial9 INTO lv_serial10 SEPARATED BY '-'.

[Sandra_Rossi]

Even if you don't know the size, you can do it with a REGEX but it's not worth the pain for a so simple algorithm.

[Former Member]

sandra.rossi - I don't think it is that much of pain if the parts have the same size

matcher = cl_abap_matcher=>create( pattern = '([A-Za-z0-9]{2})' text = serial ).

WHILE matcher->find_next( ).
  INSERT matcher->get_submatch( 0 ) INTO TABLE tokens.
ENDWHILE.

CONCATENATE LINES OF tokens INTO result SEPARATED BY '-'.

[Sandra_Rossi]

Gábor Márián The pain of people who don't know REGEX or REGEX within ABAP 😉

[FredericGirod]

Gábor Márián you should post your proposal as an answer

I was searching for REGEX to replace directly, not imagining this solution. Good idea !

[Sandra_Rossi]

I think that the goal of the exercise is to let you search in the ABAP documentation and find the right functions. For instance, start here: string expressions and functions.

[dev_parbutteea]

DATA:gv_string       TYPE string VALUE 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR',

     gv_string_final TYPE string,
     lv_mod          TYPE i,
     gv_length       TYPE i,
     gv_offset       TYPE i.

gv_length = strlen( gv_string ).

DO gv_length TIMES.
  CONCATENATE gv_string_final gv_string+gv_offset(1) INTO gv_string_final.

  lv_mod = gv_offset MOD 2.

  IF sy-index = gv_length.  "exit on reaching last caracter
    EXIT.
  ENDIF.

  IF lv_mod = 1.
    CONCATENATE gv_string_final '-' INTO gv_string_final.
  ENDIF.

  gv_offset = gv_offset + 1.
ENDDO.

WRITE:/ 'Input string: ', gv_string .
WRITE:/ 'Result: ', gv_string_final .