Read_text with special character "&".

[Former Member]

Hi Friends,

I am using the READ_TEXT to read the texts in the invoice header. In one of the text type there is an "&" and it reads out as

"<(>&<)>".

If i print the same invoice from SAP Script its printing properly.

I am using this function to extract the text and send it to the Legacy system.

Please share your thoughts on this.

Venky.

[valter_oliveira]

I can only remember of a solution like:

DATA: lines TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF tline,
      wa TYPE tline,
      char1 TYPE char3 VALUE '<(>',
      char2 TYPE char3 VALUE '<)>'.

CALL FUNCTION 'READ_TEXT'
  EXPORTING
    client   = sy-mandt
    id       = '0001'
    language = 'P'
    name     = '0000000001'
    object   = 'VBBK'
  TABLES
    lines    = lines.

LOOP AT lines INTO wa.
  IF wa-tdline CA char1 OR wa-tdline CA char2.
    REPLACE ALL OCCURRENCES OF char1 IN wa-tdline WITH space.
    REPLACE ALL OCCURRENCES OF char2 IN wa-tdline WITH space.
    CONDENSE wa-tdline.
  ENDIF.
ENDLOOP.

Regards,

Valter Oliveira

[Former Member]

Valter,

In this case if someoine has used brackets in the text, it will replace the brackets with the space too.. do you know any other solution?

Regards,

Kamesh Bathla

[Former Member]

Hi

The brackets <(>&<)> are placed automatically by the system if the text is written by new editor, the bracket is placed because & is a special character in SAPSCRIPT, infact it's used to introduced a variable has to be printed: &VAR&

Max