How to skip only some characters while loading master data in to BPC NetWeaver

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

I need to load data from flat file for Account dimension, but here in flat file there are some texts are there in starting which i need to remove for example ..

IN Flat file value is in below given format ..

TypeID	AccountType
01425	AbcdCash Investment Account
02678	AbcdMargin Account
03459	Life Income Fund

So whiling loading data i need to remove this Abcd the first 4 characters from each row if Abcd exist.

As i know in option SKIPIF we can use but on that case it is skipping all values including Abcd for that particular  row.

and in my case i need to only skip first four characters on each row if Abcd is exist on that row .

Note:- I do not want to do manually every time that is why asking that any way to make this automated by skip in OPTION while loading flat file data in to BPC ?

Thanks,

Ravi

[former_member186338 · Accepted solution]

In general you can use JavaScript in the conversion file to remove part of the string: Data Conversion Maintenance - SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation - SAP Library

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks Vadim, Let me check if it will work ...

Regards,

Ravi

[former_member186338 · Accepted solution]

For sure it will work

js: %external%.replace("Abcd","")

if you have constant prefix...

P.S. Even better - to search only in the beginning of the string (using regular expression):

js: %external%.replace(/^Abcd/,"")

^ - beginning of the string