REPLACE ALL OCCURRENCES = Short dump!

[Former Member]

I am getting confused around the REPLACE ALL OCCURRENCES command..

basically..

I have a field that i need to convert to CAPS and replace the "spaces" with "_"

But my lack of abap skills = Short dump!

So this short dump hinted that the field was to blame as it was String (0).. so i thought i would move into the CHAR30 field as it would be no longer than 30 characters...

    MOVE GS_SPECIFIC_CAMPAIGN-CAMPAIGN_NAME TO GW_CAMPAIGN_NAME.

        TRANSLATE GW_CAMPAIGN_NAME TO UPPER CASE.
        REPLACE ALL OCCURRENCES OF SPACE IN GW_CAMPAIGN_NAME WITH '_'.

But this still results in the short dump:

Runtime Errors REPLACE_INFINITE_LOOP

Exception CX_SY_REPLACE_INFINITE_LOOP

Maybe i am missing something but the error said:

Ensure that the command "REPLACE ALL OCCURENCES OF ..." is not executed with a search string of length 0.

I am using the same command, but only for populating variables into a text string... that is replacing &1 rather than a space!

I did try the REGEX command i also found in keyword search but that resulted in a different short dump!

Am i missing something obvious??

[former_member156446]

try this :

data: c_space type space.

if not GW_CAMPAIGN_NAME is initial.
TRANSLATE GW_CAMPAIGN_NAME TO UPPER CASE.
        REPLACE ALL OCCURRENCES OF c_SPACE IN GW_CAMPAIGN_NAME WITH '_'.
endif.

[che_eky]

Hi,

The following should work:

MOVE GS_SPECIFIC_CAMPAIGN-CAMPAIGN_NAME TO GW_CAMPAIGN_NAME.

TRANSLATE GW_CAMPAIGN_NAME TO UPPER CASE.

TRANSLATE GW_CAMPAIGN_NAME USING ' _'.

Note the space before the underscore above ' _', this should replace all occurrences of space with an underscore.

Che

[Former Member]

you can see i define pattern with char2,so pattern = space + '_', try it

DATA: out       TYPE string VALUE 'DO you hear me!!!',
          pattern  TYPE char2 VALUE ' _'.
TRANSLATE out USING pattern.
WRITE out.

[peter_ruiz2]

Hi Barry,

Use CONDENSE

CONDENSE GW_CAMPAIGN_NAME NO-GAPS.

Regards,

Peter

[asik_shameem]

Hi

Try like this.

DATA: g_string TYPE char30 VALUE '     ABC  def       ',
      g_index  TYPE sy-index.

TRANSLATE g_string TO UPPER CASE.

DO 30 TIMES.

  g_index = sy-index - 1.

  IF g_string+g_index(1) = ' '.

    REPLACE space IN g_string+g_index(1) WITH '_'.

  ENDIF.

ENDDO.

BREAK-POINT.

[Former Member]

hello,

i hope this helps you ... as this solution is not so performing you can use this incase u still have the dump problem. in the while if i get any good solution i will reply back . just copy paste and try out.

data : wf_string type string value 'I am so sweet'.

data : wf_string_tmp type string .

data : itab type table of string.

data : wf_itab like line of itab.

split wf_string at wf_space into table itab.

loop at itab into wf_itab.

if sy-tabix EQ 1.

wf_string_tmp = wf_itab.

else.

concatenate wf_string_tmp wf_itab into wf_string_tmp separated by '_'.

endif.

endloop.

write : / wf_string_tmp.

--- Close the post once you get the solution

[Former Member]

Hi:

It seems ok just you should add few things like

if not GS_SPECIFIC_CAMPAIGN-CAMPAIGN_NAME is initial.

MOVE GS_SPECIFIC_CAMPAIGN-CAMPAIGN_NAME TO GW_CAMPAIGN_NAME.

TRANSLATE GW_CAMPAIGN_NAME TO UPPER CASE.

REPLACE ALL OCCURRENCES OF SPACE IN GW_CAMPAIGN_NAME WITH '_'.

endif.

Regards

Shashi

[Former Member]

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[Former Member]

see the following example

LOOP AT it_otfdata1 INTO wotfdata .

REPLACE ALL OCCURRENCE OF 'DUPLICATE' IN wotfdata-tdprintpar WITH 'ORIGINAL'.IF sy-subrc = 0.*

MODIFY it_otfdata1 FROM wotfdata INDEX sy-tabix TRANSPORTING tdprintpar.

ENDIF.

ENDLOOP.

[Former Member]

I changed the work area back to a String and then used the following:

    MOVE GS_SPECIFIC_CAMPAIGN-CAMPAIGN_NAME TO GW_CAMPAIGN_NAME.
    TRANSLATE GW_CAMPAIGN_NAME TO UPPER CASE.
    TRANSLATE GW_CAMPAIGN_NAME USING ' _'.

all done and working!

Some interesting ways of doing it though! thanks for you feedback!

[che_eky]

That is what I suggested. Glad it worked.

Che

[Former Member]

your suggestion worked for 95% ;o]

I had to change the TEXT30 back to a String to remove the trailing ____________