Position of Character in a string

[Former Member]

Hi all,

Consider the string ,

" Hello World"

where the space before the letter H in Hello are empty character spaces. Can anyone tell me how I can find the position of the letter H from the beginning of the sentence using String processing ?

Thank you.

[Former Member]

hi,

SEARCH string FOR 'H'.

sy-fdpos will tell you where is it in the string.

ec

[Former Member]

Hi,

Use search

for example.

search space in string.

if sy-subrc eq 0.

w_counter = sy-fdpos + 1.

endif.

write: w_counter.

w_counter gives the position.

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[JozsefSzikszai]

hi,

SEARCH string FOR 'H'.

sy-fdpos will tell you where is it in the string.

ec

[ThomasZloch]

it can be done like this:

lf_string = ' Hello World'.
IF lf_string CA 'H'.
  "here, SY-FDPOS contains the position of the letter "H", in this case 2
ENDIF.

Greetings

Thomas

[Former Member]

Hi Ezhil,

DATA:

zlv_offset type i,

zlv_test type string value ' Hello World'.

find FIRST OCCURRENCE OF 'H' in zlv_test match OFFSET zlv_offset.

write zlv_offset.

Kind regads,

John.

[Former Member]

Hi,

Use SY-FDPOS system variable to find out the position of string.

SY-FDPOS

Location of hit in string operations.

When you use CO,CN, CA, NA, CS, NS, CP, and NP, offset values are assigned to SYFDPOS

depending on the search result.

SEARCH … FOR … sets SY-FDPOS to the offset of the search string.

Example:

DATA: STRING(30) VALUE 'This is a fast first example.',

POS TYPE I,

OFF TYPE I.

WRITE / STRING.

SEARCH STRING FOR 'ft' ABBREVIATED.

WRITE: / 'SY-FDPOS:', SY-FDPOS.

POS = SY-FDPOS + 2.

SEARCH STRING FOR 'ft' ABBREVIATED STARTING AT POS AND MARK.

WRITE / STRING.

WRITE: / 'SY-FDPOS:', SY-FDPOS.

OFF = POS + SY-FDPOS -1.

WRITE: / 'Off:', OFF.

Regards,

Bhaskar

[Former Member]

DATA text(30) value '  Hello world'.

SEARCH text FOR 'H'.
WRITE SY-FDPOS. "your case it returns 1

[Former Member]

hi,

This code below will help you to find the position of a character in a string.

PARAMETERS: INPUT(30) TYPE C,

FIND(1) TYPE C.

SEARCH INPUT FOR FIND.

IF SY-SUBRC = 0.

WRITE : 'CHAR FOUND'.

WRITE : SY-FDPOS.

ELSE.

WRITE : 'CHAR NOT FOUND'.

ENDIF.

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[Former Member]

Thank you all. The answers were very helpful.

[Former Member]

But I would also like to know how I can find the position of the character in the string if the String is dynamically generated. Can anyone throw some light on this ?

[Former Member]

Hi,

In dynamic string also use search only.

for example

DATA: text TYPE string VALUE `Roll over Beethoven`,

pos TYPE i.

SEARCH text FOR '. .'.

SEARCH text FOR ` `.

IF sy-subrc = 0.

pos = sy-fdpos + 2.

SEARCH text FOR 'bth' STARTING AT pos

ABBREVIATED AND MARK.

ENDIF.

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[Former Member]

data: str type string .

data: l type i,

counter type i.

str = ' Hello World'.

l = strlen( str ).

write: l.

search str for 'H'.

if sy-subrc = 0.

counter = sy-fdpos + 1.

endif.

write: counter.