SAP ABAP Data Element DBSAMETHOD (Search/Replace methods of an I18N_SEARCH analysis)
Hierarchy
☛ SAP_BASIS (Software Component) SAP Basis Component
   ⤷ BC-I18 (Application Component) Internationalization (I18N)
     ⤷ SCP (Package) SAP Code Pages
Basic Data
Data Element DBSAMETHOD
Short Description Search/Replace methods of an I18N_SEARCH analysis  
Data Type
Category of Dictionary Type D   Domain
Type of Object Referenced     No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type DBSOMETHOD    
Data Type CHAR   Character String 
Length 1    
Decimal Places 0    
Output Length 1    
Value Table      
Further Characteristics
Search Help: Name    
Search Help: Parameters    
Parameter ID   
Default Component name    
Change document    
No Input History    
Basic direction is set to LTR    
No BIDI Filtering    
Field Label
  Length  Field Label  
Short 10 Method 
Medium 15 Method 
Long 20 Method 
Heading 6 Method 
Documentation

Definition

There are currently 5 methods which can be used to search and replace character or bytes on the database. The search is restricted to all character like fields which have one of the following data types:

CHAR, LCHR, VARC, STRG, SSTR, LANG

Since the search for characters is dependent on the logon language, the search can be started only if the logon language is the same as it was during creation of the analysis.

Search Methods

  • Search for texts and text patterns

    Use this method if you want to do a character based search.

  • Search for bytes and byte patterns

    Use this method if you want to do a search for bytes. Please note that the search and the substitution of bytes in systems using an MDMP or blended code page configuration is dangerous, because a byte can represent different characters dependent on the logon language !

  • Use a predefined method for search and substitution

    SAP delivers some predefined search and replace methods. Please see note 846695 for the complete list of plugins available. If you use one of the predefined methods, you do not have to specify any other search or replace option.

Replace Methods

  • Character Substitution

    Use this method, if you want to do a character based substitution.

  • Byte Substitution

    Use this method if you want to do a byte based substitution. The input for the source and target string must be entered in hexadecimal notation.

Use

Dependencies

Example

History
Last changed by/on SAP  20051219 
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