SEGMENT Function in ABAP Strings
Learn how to use the SEGMENT function in ABAP to split strings by a delimiter and extract specific segments by index.
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"Segment - This function returns the occurrence of a segment of the argument text specified by index
"index: Number of segment
"sep: Substring specified is searched and used as limit
"Hallo
DATA(segment1) = segment( val = `Hallo,world,123` index = 1 sep = `,` ).
"123
DATA(segment2) = segment( val = `Hallo,world,123` index = -1 sep = `,` ).
"world
DATA(segment3) = segment( val = `Hallo<br>world<br>123` index = 2 sep = `<br>` ).
"space: Each individual character is searched and used as limit
DATA(to_be_segmented) = `a/b#c d.e`.
"b
DATA(segment4) = segment( val = `a/b#c d.e` index = 2 space = `. #/` ).
DATA segment_tab TYPE string_table.
DO.
TRY.
INSERT segment( val = to_be_segmented
index = sy-index
space = `. #/` ) INTO TABLE segment_tab.
CATCH cx_sy_strg_par_val.
EXIT.
ENDTRY.
ENDDO.
*Content of segment_tab
*a
*b
*c
*d
*e
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