Characteristic routine to read a length of char

[Former Member]

Dear experts,

Can experts give me a characteristic routine to below info object?

Assume I load data from DSO to cube, and I want record in infoobject

to read only a length of words.

From example below, I want a characteristic routine at functional location

infoobject that can make functional location read as in the cube.

The original record is in the DSO.

Hope experts can help me. Thank you.

Example:

Infoobject  functional location.

DSO

functional location

MAB-3010-ASIDE-BOMBA-PARKING

CUBE

functional location

MAB-3010-ASIDE-BOMBA

[anshu_lilhori · Accepted solution]

Hi,

If your requirement is to know the length of string then you may use function STRLEN.

Again if you need according to the below example and this will be the case always:

functional location
MAB-3010-ASIDE-BOMBA-PARKING

CUBE
functional location
MAB-3010-ASIDE-BOMBA

At field level routine just do the offseting as below.

0funcloc+0(20).

Hope this helps.

Regards,

AL

[Former Member]

Dear experts,

I get it. Thanks a lot for your help.

[former_member197527]

Hi,

If you want length, use STRLEN()

If you want a portion of any string, use STRING+0(n), where 'n' refers to the no.of letters to be skipped.

This really works, use it in field routine as required

Hope this helps!

[sander_vanwilligen]

Hi,

Maybe provide some additional information since your requirements are not completely clear to me.

Do you want to exclude e.g. the last part of the Functional Location (i.e. the last part after the last - sign)?

There are many ways to work with characteristic strings. However, it is important to exactly understand which variants may occur and if the string processing has to be dynamic.

Best regards,

Sander