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Position of Character in a dynamically generated string

Posted on Jan 18, 2008 at 10:04 AM 11 Views

Hi all,

Can anyone tell me how I can find the position of the first character in a dynamically generated string, which has empty spaces preceding the 1st character.

For eg.,

" Hello World".

Here, the string Hello World is dynamic and in real time can be any string which the user might not know. In that case, how do I find out the position of the first character or find the number of spaces existing before I encounter the 1st character ?

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    Posted on Jan 18, 2008 at 10:30 AM
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    You can try this code..

    DATA text(30).

text = '   My String'. "for example this is dynamic text

IF text CA sy-abcde OR text CA '0123456789'.
  WRITE : sy-fdpos.
ENDIF.

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    Posted on Jan 18, 2008 at 10:17 AM
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    If u want to remove leading spaces, just use following statement:

    SHIFT <fieldname> LEFT DELETING LEADING SPACES

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    Posted on Jan 18, 2008 at 10:34 AM
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    Thank you all.

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    Posted on Jan 18, 2008 at 10:39 AM
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    HI,

    For searching the string u can use

    SEARCH <c> FOR <str> <options>.

    for deleting the preceeding r successing space

    SHIFT <c> LEFT DELETING LEADING <str>.

    SHIFT <c> RIGHT DELETING TRAILING <str>.

    regards

    zubair

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