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• SECTION OF REPLACE • OFFSET REPLACE • LENGTH REPLACE
REPLACE SECTION OF Short Reference
ABAP_SYNTAX REPLACE SECTION $[OFFSET off$] $[LENGTH len$] OF dobj WITH new $[IN ${CHARACTER$|BYTE$} MODE$].
ABAP Addition ... IN ${CHARACTER$|BYTE$} MODE
What does it do? In position-based replacements, the section in dobj is replaced starting at the offset specified in off for the length specified in len with the content of the operand new . The same applies to the additions OFFSET and LENGTH as to FIND SECTION OF. • IN BYTE MODE REPLACE SECTION OF • IN CHARACTER MODE REPLACE SECTION OF
ABAP Addition
What does it do? The optional addition IN ${CHARACTER$|BYTE$} MODE determines whether character string or byte string processing is performed. If the addition is not specified, character string processing is performed. Depending on the processing type, dobj and new must be character-like or byte-like.
ABAP_EXAMPLE_VX5 The statement FIND determines the offset and length of the first word know in the data objects text1 and text2 and to replace this section in a position-based manner in text1 and text2 with should know that. After the first REPLACE statement, text1 contains the complete content I should know that you know and sy-subrc contains 0. After the second REPLACE statement, text2 contains the truncated content I should know that and sy-subrc contains 2. ABEXA 00549 ABAP_EXAMPLE_END
Runtime Exceptions
Catchable Exceptions CX_SY_RANGE_OUT_OF_BOUNDS
Reason for error:
Specified offset or length violated the bounds of the string dobj.
