I am working in an ABAP program and I have a question.
For example in C# when we have a String variable: string name; , and we want this to be filled with some data from a textbox but also add some ohter text.
For example:
string name = "Hello: " + textBox1.text;,
And I want to ask you how can I do this in ABAP ??? How to add text plus the text written from a Parameter type C?
CONCATENATE and the concatenate operator && will do it as answered by Jagger and vwegert. To do it with string expressions, you use the below where name is the screen field or whatever that has the name in it (it doesn't need to be a field-symbol):
greeting = |Hello: { <name> }|.
String expressions are extremely useful as they can be used to build up complex values without declaring extra variables - e.g. they can passed as directly as function module or method parameters without first assigning to a local variable.
You can either use the CONCATENATE keyword or -- in newer releases -- string expressions. Be sure to check the online documentation and sample programs available using the transaction ABAPDOCU, it will save you a ton of seemingly basic questions.
The equivalent operator is &&.
So in your case it would be:
name = 'Hello: ' && textBox1->text.
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I have, in a database, records that are serialized PHP strings that I must obfuscate emails if there are any. The simplest record is like {s:20:"pika.chu#pokemon.com"}. It is basically saying: this is a string of length 20 which is pika.chu#pokemon.com. This field can be kilobytes long with lot of emails (or none) and sometimes it is empty.
I wish I could use a SQL regular expression function to obfuscate the user part of the email while preserving the length of the string in order not to break the PHP serialization. The example email above shall be turned into {s:20:"xxxxxxxx#pokemon.com"} where the number of x matches the length of pika.chu.
Any thoughts?
Here is a more complete example of what can be found as serialized PHP:
a:4:{s:7:"locales";a:3:{i:0;s:5:"fr_FR";i:1;s:5:"de_DE";i:2;s:5:"en_US";}s:9:"publisher";s:18:"john#something.com";s:7:"authors";a:2:{i:0;s:21:"william#something.com";i:1;s:19:"debbie#software.org";}s:12:"published_at";O:8:"DateTime":3:{s:4:"date";s:26:"2022-01-26 13:05:26.531289";s:13:"timezone_type";i:3;s:8:"timezone";s:3:"UTC";}}
I tried to do it using native functions but it not worked because functions like REGEXP_REPLACE don't let you manipulate the match to get the size of it, for example.
Instead, I've created a UDF to do that:
CREATE TEMP FUNCTION hideEmail(str STRING)
RETURNS STRING
LANGUAGE js AS """
return str
.replace(/([a-zA-Z.0-9_\\+-:]*)#/g, function(txt){return '*'.repeat(txt.length-1)+"#";})
""";
select hideEmail('a:4:{s:7:"locales";a:3:{i:0;s:5:"fr_FR";i:1;s:5:"de_DE";i:2;s:5:"en_US";}s:9:"publisher";s:18:"john#something.com";s:7:"authors";a:2:{i:0;s:21:"william#something.com";i:1;s:19:"debbie#software.org";}s:12:"published_at";O:8:"DateTime":3:{s:4:"date";s:26:"2022-01-26 13:05:26.531289";s:13:"timezone_type";i:3;s:8:"timezone";s:3:"UTC";}}')
Result:
a:4:{s:7:"locales";a:3:{i:0;s:5:"fr_FR";i:1;s:5:"de_DE";i:2;s:5:"en_US";}s:9:"publisher";s:18:"****#something.com";s:7:"authors";a:2:{i:0;s:21:"*******#something.com";i:1;s:19:"******#software.org";}s:12:"published_at";O:8:"DateTime":3:{s:4:"date";s:26:"2022-01-26 13:05:26.531289";s:13:"timezone_type";i:3;s:8:"timezone";s:3:"UTC";}}
I have a string of numbers set by user. Defined in the beginning of the Webdriver test:
numbers = input("prompt")
Then I need to enter value of this variable by JS code like this:
driver.execute_script("document.getElementsByName('phone')[0].value=***")
Where instead of *** I need the value of "numbers" variable. How should I properly insert it to make it work?
Here is what you want to do.
numbers = input("prompt")
driver.execute_script("document.getElementsByName('phone')[0].value={}".format(numbers))
The documentation link:
https://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html
And a snip-it from the docs:
The field_name itself begins with an arg_name that is either a number or a keyword. If it’s a number, it refers to a positional argument, and if it’s a keyword, it refers to a named keyword argument. If the numerical arg_names in a format string are 0, 1, 2, … in sequence, they can all be omitted (not just some) and the numbers 0, 1, 2, … will be automatically inserted in that order. Because arg_name is not quote-delimited, it is not possible to specify arbitrary dictionary keys (e.g., the strings '10' or ':-]') within a format string. The arg_name can be followed by any number of index or attribute expressions. An expression of the form '.name' selects the named attribute using getattr(), while an expression of the form '[index]' does an index lookup using getitem().
Changed in version 3.1: The positional argument specifiers can be omitted for str.format(), so '{} {}'.format(a, b) is equivalent to '{0} {1}'.format(a, b).
OR
numbers = input("prompt")
driver.execute_script("document.getElementsByName('phone')[0].value=%s" % numbers)
See examples of both here:
https://pyformat.info/
If your python variable's value is simple string without single quotes or special characters, you can simply use:
driver.execute_script("document.getElementsByName('phone')[0].value='" +
python_variable + "'");
If it has quote marks in it, or special characters that need escaping, or if it's not a string at all, you need to obtain JavaScript string representation of your Python variable's value. json.dumps will handle all the necessary formatting and escaping for you, appropriate to the type of your variable:
from json import dumps
driver.execute_script("document.getElementsByName('phone')[0].value=" +
dumps(python_variable))
Is there any way of programmatically getting the value of a Text Symbol at runtime?
The scenario is that I have a simple report that calls a function module. I receive an exported parameter in variable LV_MSG of type CHAR1. This indicates a certain status message created in the program, for instance F (Fail), X (Match) or E (Error). I currently use a CASE statement to switch on LV_MSG and fill another variable with a short description of the message. These descriptions are maintained as text symbols that I retrieve at compile time with text-MS# where # is the same as the possible returns of LV_MSG, for instance text-MSX has the value "Exact Match Found".
Now it seems to me that the entire CASE statement is unnecessary as I could just assign to my description variable the value of the text symbol with ID 'MS' + LV_MSG (pseudocode, would use CONCATENATE). Now my issue is how I can find a text symbol based on the String representation of its ID at runtime. Is this even possible?
If it is, my code would look cleaner and I wouldn't have to update my actual code when new messages are added in the function module, as I would simply have to add a new text symbol. But would this approach be any faster or would it in fact degrade the report's performance?
Personally, I would probably define a domain and use the fixed values of the domain to represent the values. This way, you would even get around the string concatenation. You can use the function module DD_DOMVALUE_TEXT_GET to easily access the language-dependent text of a domain value.
To access the text elements of a program, use a function module like READ_TEXT_ELEMENTS.
Be aware that generic programming like this will definitely slow down your program. Whether it would make your code look cleaner is in the eye of the beholder - if the values change rarely, I don't see why a simple CASE statement should be inferior to some generic text access.
Hope I understand you correctly but here goes. This is possible with a little trickery, all the text symbols in a report are defined as variables in the program (with the name text-abc where abc is the text ID). So you can use the following:
data: lt_all_text type standard table of textpool with default key,
lsr_text type ref to textpool.
"Load texts - you will only want to do this once
read textpool sy-repid into lt_all_text language sy-langu.
sort lt_all_Text by entry.
"Find a text, the field KEY is the text ID without TEXT-
read table lt_all_text with key entry = i_wanted_text
reference into lsr_text binary search.
If you want the address you can add:
field-symbols: <l_text> type any.
data l_name type string.
data lr_address type ref to data.
concatenate 'TEXT-' lsr_text->key into l_name.
assign (l_name) to <l_text>.
if sy-subrc = 0.
get reference of <l_text> into lr_address.
endif.
As vwegert pointed out this is probably not the best solution, for error handling rather use message classes or exception objects. This is useful in other cases though so now you know how.
I copied code to map a network drive from http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=616519 to map the drive and http://cjwdev.wordpress.com/2010/05/30/delete-network-drive/ to delete the drive. I want to know what "R"c means in this code:
RemoveNetworkDrive("R"c, True)
which came from the first link and then I want to know how to simulate this notation in a variable so I can check for the first available drive and map the network drive to that letter. I would Google search it but since I don't know what "R"c means it makes it difficult.
"R"c is the Char version of "R". You use it when you want to specify a character rather than a string.
MSDN has some details here:
You can also create an array of strings from a single string by using the String.Split Method. The following example demonstrates the reverse of the previous example: it takes a shopping list and turns it into an array of shopping items. The separator in this case is an instance of the Char data type; thus it is appended with the literal type character c.
Dim shoppingList As String = "Milk,Eggs,Bread"
Dim shoppingItem(2) As String
shoppingItem = shoppingList.Split(","c)
It converts your string "R" to a char, as requested from function
Public Shared Sub RemoveNetworkDrive(ByVal DriveLetter As Char, ...)
It's the syntax for a character literal, basically - it's the equivalent of 'R' in C#, if that makes it any clearer.
Im just wondering if it is possible to put a variable in a pattern match in Lua. Like something similar to the following:
var = "hello"
pattern = string.match(datasource, "(var)%s(a%+)")
The reason I need to do this is because the variable "var" will change periodically. (it will be in a loop)
Cheers in advance
Lua doesn't handle string interpolation inside of the quotes. Instead, you'll need to concatenate the parts with the var as a var reference and the rest as quote strings.
"("..var..")%s(a%+)" starts with a "(" as a string literal, concatenates the variable, then finishes off the rest of the string with a string literal.
Use "("..var..")%s(a%+)" instead.
I needed the same thing I think, a variable in a pattern match, but the above solution didn't work for me. I'm posting my solution in case it helps someone, didn't find anything else on the net like it.
I read a ': ' delimited file (name: tel) and want to search by name in the file and have the name and telephone number as answer.
local FileToSearch = h:read'*a' -- Read all the file
var = io.read() -- ask the name
string.gmatch(FileToSearch, ''..var..': '..'%d+') -- search for name, concatenate with number