12 Comments

• 
  Valentin

  # March 25th, 2014 at 1:34 am

  Hi Namesh,
  I think string templates should be added to the list as additional possibility.

  Keep up your good work!

  Kind regards,
  Valentin

• 
  Martin

  # March 25th, 2014 at 4:54 am

  There is also another way (since NW 7.3):

  Zevolving ABAP Syntax Highlighter

   
   
  DATA lv_string TYPE string.
   
  lv_string = |Hello | && |world!|.
   
  WRITE lv_string.
   
   

• 
  Naimesh Patel

  # March 25th, 2014 at 9:00 am

  Hello Valentin & Martin,

  I totally forgot about the string templates and the chaining operator (&), even though I wrote articles on that in past
  ABAP String Templates New Feature in ABAP 731
  Difference Between && (Chaining Operator) and & (Literal Operator)

  I guess, I’m not using them as much as I use other forms 🙂

  I have updated the code snippet with the string template as well.

  Thanks,
  Naimesh Patel

• 
  Martin

  # March 25th, 2014 at 9:11 am

  Naimesh,

  String templates are very useful.
  You don’t need to create three variables like var1, var2 and var3 and put it into a string (like in concatenate).

  I know. String templates seem to be difficult to learn but it’s the simplest and shortest way to write short code without large blocks of “DATA:” 🙂

  Regards,
  Marcin

• 
  steve oldner

  # March 25th, 2014 at 9:11 am

  Great! Just used the string template the other week!
  @martin- I have been using that style since we upgraded last year.

• 
  Naimesh Patel

  # March 25th, 2014 at 9:17 am

  Martin,

  We still need to use variables if the text is not hardcoded. And most of the time, I make sure the text is not hard coded. Either it is from the Language dependent text table or from text elements – so I can have multilingual support. 🙂

  Thanks,
  Naimesh patel

• 
  Aurelio Hernández

  # March 25th, 2014 at 9:38 am

  I always use string templates since I learnt about them in your blog. In you example, I would put it this way:

  lv_result = |{ v_var1 } { v_var2 } { v_var3 }|.

  When combined with REGEX and string functions you can do things like this, in one line:

  l_output = |{ substring( val = SND_ID off = find( val = SND_ID regex = ‘(.{0,8})$’ ) ) }{ sy-uzeit }|.

  Beautiful, isn’t it? 😀

• 
  Naimesh Patel

  # March 25th, 2014 at 9:47 am

  Aurelio – It looks great! I guess your co-workers would have hard time to understand that if they don’t know what is string templates 😉

• 
  Valentin

  # March 28th, 2014 at 1:39 am

  Hi Naimesh,

  I think the example using string templates can be simplified:

   
  lv_result = |{ v_var1 } { v_var2 } { v_var3 }|.
   

  This way you don’t have to use the concatenation operator and one can use string literals quite easily, e.g.:

   
  lv_result = |The result of adding { v_var1 } to { v_var2 } is { v_var3 }.|.
   

• 
  Naimesh Patel

  # March 28th, 2014 at 9:16 am

  Hello Valentin,

  I believe there is difference when you use the Literal operator vs when you don’t use with the string template.

   
  *=== String templates
  lv_result = |{ v_var1 } { v_var2 } { v_var3 }|.
  write: /(30) 'String templates - No &', lv_result.
   
  *=== String templates
  lv_result = |{ v_var1 }|  & |{ v_var2 }| & |{ v_var3 }|.
  write: /(30) 'String templates - with &', lv_result.
   
  ** Output
  *String templates - No &        Building A String
  *String templates - with &      BuildingAString
   

  Without chaining operator there is a SPACE in between the literals where as when using with chaining operator &, string doesn’t have space within.

  Thanks,
  Naimesh Patel

• 
  Pablo

  # April 1st, 2014 at 3:34 pm

  Even more complicated:

   
  lv_result = insert(  val = insert( val = v_var1 sub = v_var2 off = strlen( v_var1 ) ) sub = v_var3 off = strlen( v_var1 ) + strlen( v_var2 ) ).
   

• 
  Naimesh Patel

  # April 1st, 2014 at 4:05 pm

  Pablo,

  I believe the syntax is from ABAP 740 release. Yes, I agree with you, it would be more complicated syntax to read but would be easy to write and look cleaner!