Processing Character Strings

ABAP provides several keywords for processing data objects of type C, also known as character strings.

The system does not perform type conversions during operations on character strings. With each of the string processing keywords described in the following topics, the system treats all operands as type C fields, regardless of their actual type.

You can process character strings by

Shifting Field Contents

Replacing Field Contents

Converting to Upper/Lower Case and Substituting Characters

Converting into a Sortable Format

Overlaying Strings

Finding Strings

Condensing Field Contents

Finding out the Length of a Character String

Concatenating Strings

Splitting Strings

An explanation of a MOVE statement variant which works only with character fields, you find under

Assigning Parts of Character Strings.