ABAP Commands - Exercise

ABAP COMMANDS EXERCISE 1 – STRING OPERATIONS

1. Shifting strings by a given number of places

- Define variable t1 length 10 type c value ‘abcdefghij’.
- Define string1 like t1.
- Assign t1 to string1.
- Shift string1 by a single place
- Shift string1 by 3 places in all possible ways (left, right, circular)
- Display the output after each operation

2. Shifting up to a given string

- Define str2(2) type c value ‘ef’
- Shift string1 upto str2
- Repeat for left, right, circular.
- Display the outputs

3. Shifting depending on first or last character

- Define t3 length 14 value ‘ abcdefghij’
- Define string3 like t3.
- Define str3 value ‘ghij’.
- Print string3 without the leading space.
- Print string3 without ‘ghij’ and right-aligned

4. Replacing values
- Define a string with value ‘PUPPY’.
- Change it to ‘MUMMY’ using ABAP command

5. Translate
- Define t5(10) value ‘aBcDeFgHiJ’.
- Define string5 like t5.
- Assign t5 to string5. Translate to uppercase
- Assign t5 to string5. Translate to lowercase

6. Overlay strings
- Define t6(10) TYPE c VALUE 'a c e g i ',
string6 LIKE t6,
over6(10) TYPE c VALUE 'ABCDEFGHIJ'
- Assign value of t6 to string6
- Overlay string6 with over6 and output the result

7. Search strings
- Define string7(30) TYPE c VALUE 'This is a little sentence.'

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ABAP Commands - Exercise

- Search string for ‘itt’.

- If found, print the position at which the substring is found.

8. Length of a string
- Define word1(20) TYPE c VALUE '12345',
word2(20) TYPE c ,
word3(20) TYPE c VALUE ' 4 '.
- Get the lengths of strings word1, word2, word3.
- Display the result.

9. Condensing strings
- Define string9(25) TYPE c VALUE ' one two three four'.
- Condense the above string
- Condense string specifying no gaps
- Display the results along with the string length in each case.

10. Concatenating strings

- Define c1(10) TYPE c VALUE 'Sum',
c2(3) TYPE c VALUE 'mer',
c3(5) TYPE c VALUE 'holi ',
c4(10) TYPE c VALUE 'day',
sep(3) TYPE c VALUE ' - '
- Output a variable so that it contains ‘Summerholiday’
- Output a variable so that it contains ‘Sum - mer - holi – day’

11. Splitting strings

- Split the variable obtained in the second case above into variables
containing ‘Sum’, ‘mer’, ‘holi’ and ‘day’.

12. Moving parts of string

- Define mc1(10) TYPE c VALUE 'ABCDEFGHIJ'
- Use MOVE cmd with PERCENTAGE addition to display output ‘ABCD’
left-aligned & right-aligned

13. Contains Operations

- Define a variable with value ‘Today is a wonderful day’.
- Check if it contains any numeric character
- Check if it contains the string ‘day’
- Define a variable ‘121314’
- Check if it contains all numeric values

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