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SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook
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SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook

by Rehan Zaidi
December 2012
Intermediate to advanced
316 pages
6h 51m
English
Packt Publishing
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Removal of characters from a string

In this recipe, we will see how special characters and blanks may be removed from a text string comprising of a telephone number. We will create a program that will take as input the number containing blank spaces and special characters such as +, (, and ).

The replace statement along with suitable regular expressions will be used. Various regular expressions may work in this case. We will see two such expressions in this recipe.

How to do it...

For meeting the mentioned requirement, proceed as follows:

  1. Declare a parameter by the name number, consisting of 20 characters.
  2. The replace all occurrences is added having the regular expression [^\d].

How it works...

The solution is based on searching all non-digit characters ...

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