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ID REPLACE • REPLACE IN TABLE ABAP Statement • FIRST OCCURRENCE OF REPLACE IN TABLE • ALL OCCURRENCES OF REPLACE IN TABLE • IN BYTE MODE REPLACE IN TABLE • IN CHARACTER MODE REPLACE IN TABLE
REPLACE IN TABLE itab Short Reference
ABAP_SYNTAX REPLACE $[${FIRST OCCURRENCE$}$|${ALL OCCURRENCES$} OF$] pattern IN TABLE itab $[table_range $] WITH new $[IN ${CHARACTER$|BYTE$} MODE$] $[replace_options$].
What does it do? The internal table itab is searched line-by-line for the character or byte strings specified by pattern and replaces any occurrences with the content of the operand new. new is a character-like expression position. itab expects a standard table without secondary table keys. The lines in the table must be character -like or byte-like, depending on the addition CHARACTER or BYTE MODE. Byte or character strings that cover multiple table lines are not replaced. The addition table_range can be used to restrict the search range in the table. When searching in individual table lines, the other additions operate in the same way as in the statement REPLACE pattern IN for elementary character or byte strings, with a further addition, REPLACEMENT LINE that also returns the line number of an occurrence. In string processing for line types of fixed length, trailing blanks are respected, whereas in new they are ignored. If the internal table is empty, a replacement is never successful and sy-subrc is set to 4.
Latest notes:
REPLACE IN TABLE can be used in tables with structured line types to replace character strings if the structure only contains flat character-like components. Every line is then handled in the same way as a field of type c.
Replacements using REPLACE IN TABLE give better performance than running a LOOP and using REPLACE to make replacements in individual lines. NON_V5_HINTS ABAP_HINT_END System Fields sy-subrcMeaning 0The search pattern was replaced by the content of new and the full result is available in the table lines. 2The search pattern was replaced by the content of new and the result of the replacement was truncated on the right in at least one table line. 4The search pattern in pattern was not found in the internal table. 8The operands pattern or new do not contain interpretable double-byte characters. The values of sy-tabix and sy-fdpos are not changed.
ABAP_EXAMPLE_VX5 A simple <(>DM-Euro Conversion<)>. ABEXA 00550 ABAP_EXAMPLE_END
Runtime Exceptions
Catchable Exceptions CX_SY_REPLACE_INFINITE_LOOP
Reason for error:
Substring of length 0 creates an endless loop when searching for all occurrences.
