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translate field of many internal table in one go

Posted on Oct 04, 2005 at 07:45 AM 1.1k Views

Hello,

i know i can translate a field of particular internal table to upper case using keyword 'TRANSLATE itab-field TO UPPER CASE'.

my requirement is i have 15 internal table. i want to create one subroutine which if given name of internal table will convert all the lower case values in that table to upper case.

data : int_table(50).

int_table = 'name_of_internal_table'.

perform translate_to_upper_case using int_table.

is this possible, is there any FM for this.

please advice.

regards

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    Posted on Oct 04, 2005 at 08:00 AM
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    Hi,

    The code you have written is correct.

    But pass the parameter field as <b>CHANGING</b> not

    <b>USING</b>. Within the implementation part of this

    perform wirte this.

    FORM translate_to_upper_case <b>CHANGING</b> int_table1

    LOOP at int_table1.

    TRANSLATE int_table1-field TO UPPER CASE.

    MODIFY int_table 1.

    ENDLOOP.

    ENDFORM.

    Ensure that the contents of the internal table are characters or texts.

    Please reward points if this explanation is useful.

    Regards,

    Siva

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    • Former Member Former Member
      Oct 05, 2005 at 08:11 AM

      Hi

      when you run this statament:

      ASSIGN (P_INT_TABLE) TO <TABLE>.

      an error occurs because the field-symbols <TABLE> is a table and you are probably assigning the workarea of P_INT_TABLE and not all data of P_INT_TABLE.

      When you want to pass whole table to field-symbols if P_INT_TABLE is only the name of internal table you should write:

      DATA: ALL_TABLE(3O) TYPE C.

      CONCATENATE P_INT_TABLE '[]' INTO ALL_TABLE.

      ASSIGN (ALL_TABLE) TO <TABLE>.

      Or you change the type of parameter of form:

      FORM TRANSLATE_TO_UPPER_CASE

      USING P_INT_TABLE TYPE TABLE.

      Now you write:

      ASSIGN P_INT_TABLE TO <TABLE>.

      But when you run this routine you have to write:

      PERFORM TRANSLATE_TO_UPPER_CASE MY_YABLE[].

      Anyway in this case the field-symbols <TABLE> is useless because you can directly use the parameter:

      FORM TRANSLATE_TO_UPPER_CASE

      USING P_INT_TABLE TYPE TABLE.

      FIELD-SYMBOLS: <WA> TYPE ANY.

      LOOP AT P_INT_TABLE ASSIGNING <WA>.

      TRANSLATE <WA> TO UPPER CASE.

      ENDLOOP.

      ENDFORM.

      Max

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    Posted on Oct 04, 2005 at 07:56 AM
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    Hi,

    Try this.

    form translator_to_upper_case using tab_name.

    field-symbols: <itab> type standard table,

    <wa> type any.

    assign (tab_name) to <itab>.

    loop at <itab> assigning <wa>.

    TRANSLATE <wa> TO UPPER CASE.

    endloop.

    endform.

    Svetlin

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    • Former Member
      Oct 04, 2005 at 03:26 PM

      Hi Svetlin,

      this is great logic, but very tedious, so i stick to my old logic.

      But i need your advice in following logic given by you

      form translator_to_upper_case using tab_name.

      field-symbols: <itab> type standard table,

      <wa> type any.

      assign (tab_name) to <itab>.

      loop at <itab> assigning <wa>.

      TRANSLATE <wa> TO UPPER CASE.

      endloop.

      endform.

      i was trying this, but at runtime i get error

      ASSIGN_TYPE_CONFLICT

      for code :: assign (tab_name) to <itab>.

      please advice how to remove this

      regards

  • author's profile photo Christian Finkbeiner
    Christian Finkbeiner
    Posted on Oct 04, 2005 at 08:01 AM
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    This is just pseudocode but you will get the idea.

    In this case you do not pass the name of the internal table but the internal table itself

    p_field is the field to be translated.

    perform translate_table using 'COMPONENT' int_table[].

    HTH

    Christian 

    form translate_table using p_field type dd02l-fieldname
                     changing pit_itab type any table.

  field-symbols: <l_field> type any. 
  field-symbols: <lwa_line> type any. 

  loop at pit_itab assigning <lwa_line>. 
    assign component (p_field) of structure <lwa_line>
                               to <L_field>. 
    if sy-subrc ne 0. exit. endif. 
       translate <l_field> to upper case.  
    endif. 
 endloop.  
endform.

    Message was edited by: Christian Finkbeiner

    Ahh too slow....

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