Position of Character in a dynamically generated string

[Former Member]

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 ?

[Former Member]

If u want to remove leading spaces, just use following statement:

SHIFT <fieldname> LEFT DELETING LEADING SPACES

[Former Member]

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.

[Former Member]

Thank you all.

[Former Member]

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