How to replace the nth position value in a word ?

[former_member540771]

Hi All,

How to replace the nth position field.

I can get the position of the field by using Find.I want to replace that position field with a variable.

For Example:- "ababap,ihaidhaidha,yusgdusd,hsjdhus,uhadjahd,uahsuah,iwueiwue,jueuwhgd".

I want to replace the 6th position value with aaaaa

The result should be like:-

ababap,ihaidhaidha,yusgdusd,hsjdhus,uhadjahd,aaaaa,iwueiwue,jueuwhgd

Thank you in advance!

Regards,

Sri Harika

[hubert_heitzer]

Hi Sri,

the keyword WRITE should help you.

E.g.

  DATA:
    lv_source TYPE text72 VALUE 'ababap,ihaidhaidha,yusgdusd,hsjdhus,uhadjahd,uahsuah,iwueiwue,jueuwhgd',
    lv_pos    TYPE i      VALUE 6,
    lv_len    TYPE i,
    lv_subst  TYPE string VALUE 'aaaaa'
    .

  WRITE: / lv_source.
  lv_len = strlen( lv_subst ).
  lv_pos = lv_pos - 1.
  WRITE lv_subst TO lv_source+lv_pos(lv_len).
  WRITE: / lv_source.

Regards, Hubert

[matt]

He means the sixth "word", in a comma delimited string.

[hubert_heitzer]

Ah sorry, my crystal ball just got broken today morning.

Which model do you use Matt?

[matt]

I just looked at the before and after example:

Before: ababap,ihaidhaidha,yusgdusd,hsjdhus,uhadjahd,uahsuah,iwueiwue,jueuwhgd

After: ababap,ihaidhaidha,yusgdusd,hsjdhus,uhadjahd,aaaaa,iwueiwue,jueuwhgd

[matt]

Look up the keyword "SPLIT" and look at your course notes on how to concatenate strings.

[horst_keller]

Hmm, SPLIT and CONCATENATE for REPLACEing (and a WHILE loop for ALL OCCURRENCES)?

Done that before 7.0, but refactored now.

[matt]

I hadn't had my first coffee...

[horst_keller]

https://help.sap.com/doc/abapdocu_752_index_htm/7.52/en-US/abapreplace_in_position.htm?file=abaprepl...

[Jelena]

Since I was not the only one confused by this, just want to point out that the example has multiple words in it (the word ends after a punctuation mark). This is about replacing the Nth word in a string, not the Nth position in a word.

[former_member540771]

Hi All,

Thanks a lot for your Answers!

I just want to mention that how I have done this so that It may helpfull in future for others.

I have used "segment" to get the particular field at comma to know the length of that position.

DATA(l_rec) = segment( val = "ababap,ihaidhaidha,yusgdusd,hsjdhus,uhadjahd,uahsuah,iwueiwue,jueuwhgd" index = 6 sep = lc_comma ).

DATA(l_rec_len) = strlen( l_rec ).

And getting the position of comma by using find option:-

DATA(l_rec_pos) = find( val = "ababap,ihaidhaidha,yusgdusd,hsjdhus,uhadjahd,uahsuah,iwueiwue,jueuwhgd" sub = lc_comma occ = 6 ).

Then I used Replace option:-

REPLACE SECTION OFFSET l_rec_pos LENGTH l_rec_len OF:

"ababap,ihaidhaidha,yusgdusd,hsjdhus,uhadjahd,uahsuah,iwueiwue,jueuwhgd" WITH 'aaaa'.

Hope this solution dosen't create confusion...

Thank You,

Sri Harika