Searching strings for Non printable characters???

[former_member445996]

Hi All,

I have a string which contains some non-printable characters such as tab, Carriage return/Line feed, etc, etc. How can I search for these characters in a string. I have tried to search them with SEARCH command using hex values but nothing is found. Is there a way to accomplish this? Any FM that removes all non-printable characters from the string?

Thanks in advance.

[RichHeilman]

Yes, you can search using the values from CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES. There are values for other non-printable characters as well.

For example, you want to search for a tab.

search str for CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES=>horizontal_tab.

Regards,

Rich Heilman

[Former Member]

HI Anurag,

Use Class CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES

Method horizontal_tab

i.e, CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES=>horizontal_tab

thanks Rich for that correction ....

Regards,

Santosh

Message was edited by: Santosh Kumar P

[RichHeilman]

Santosh, to be clear, this is not a FM, it is a class.

Regards,

Rich Heilman

[former_member186741]

Class CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES has these attributes:

HORIZONTAL_TAB

VERTICAL_TAB

NEWLINE

CR_LF

FORM_FEED

BACKSPACE

You can refer to any of them by prefixing 'CL_ABAP_CHAR_UTILITIES=>'.

But if you are not sure of the non-printable values you wish to eliminate maybe you can work out what IS printable and remove everything else?

eg,

• first line of keyboard......

DATA first_LINE(30) VALUE

'`1234567890-=~!@#$%^&*()_+'.

DATA SECOND_LINE(30) VALUE

'qwertyuiop[]\QWERTYUIOP{}|'.

DATA THIRD_LINE(30) VALUE

'asdfghjkl;''ASDFGHJKL:"'.

DATA FOURTH_LINE(30) VALUE

'zxcvbnm,./ZXCVBNM<>?'.

data printable(150).

concatenate first_line second_line third_line fourth_line

into printable.

condense printable.

data string(120).

data hex type c.

field-symbols <hex> type x.

assign hex to <hex> casting.

*you probably don't need 'casting' in 4.6

<hex> = '09'.

concatenate first_line third_line fourth_line into string separated by hex.

write:/ string.

do.

*end when all characters are printable

if string co printable. exit. endif

string+sy-fdpos(1) = ''.

enddo.

write:/ string.

[Former Member]

hi Anurag,

Check this out

Reward if it helps

Regards,

Santosh

[RichHeilman]

You can use the hex values then. For example, horizontal tab is 09.

constants: tab type x value '09'.

REgards,

Rich Heilman

[former_member445996]

Thanks guys,

This class is not available to us as we are on 4.6 where as this one is availabe 4.7 and up.

Any other ideas/suggestions?

Thanks

[former_member445996]

Thanks to everyone for their ideas and suggestions.