Conversion of lower case letters to upper case in ABAP

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Hi Experts
How to convert lower case letter to upper case letter in ABAP
Edited by: Matt on Feb 13, 2009 6:55 AM - subject changed

Hi,
Check the below syntax
TRANSLATE text {TO {UPPER|LOWER} CASE}
| {USING pattern}.
Regards,
Anki Reddy

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Hi,
As mentioned above you will have to use TRANSLATE command to do the conversion. Now you can either write a routine at Infoobject level or write a field routine for conversion. In case of infoobject routine again you might have to change the original infoobject so I would suggest you to go for Field level routine in transformation.
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I need small help on conversions.
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I have lower case letters coming in lot of fields - The lower case letters are coming in Key and Data Fields. In short my 90% od the infoobject have this challenge.
I know I have following 2 options
(1) Convert to upper in transformation
(2) change the infoobject setting.
I read couple of messages and I know putting "Convert to upper" in routines is a better option.
Now I am trying to look why the option 2 is not good.
I can guess the following reasons but I am looking for an SAP help document which can confirm the same. Or if any users have experinced this issues when you allow lower case letters.
(a) F4 list can take longer, this can impact query perfromance
(b) Indexing can take longer.
(c)Search will become case sensitive- SAP gives a warning when you switch on lower case letters.
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Hi Folks
I have lower case letters coming in lot of fields - The lower case letters are coming in Key and Data Fields. In short my 90% od the infoobject have this challenge.
I know I have following 2 options
(1) Convert to upper in transformation
(2) change the infoobject setting.
I read couple of messages and I know putting "Convert to upper" in routines is a better option.
Now I am trying to look why the option 2 is not good.
I can guess the following reasons but I am looking for an SAP help document which can confirm the same. Or if any users have experinced this issues when you allow lower case letters.
(a) F4 list can take longer, this can impact query perfromance
(b) Indexing can take longer.
(c)Search will become case sensitive- SAP gives a warning when you switch on lower case letters.
regards
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Hi,
DATA letters(3) TYPE C.
MOVE 'abc' TO letters.
TRANSLATE letters TO LOWER CASE.
For more infromation...
TRANSLATE
Variants:
1. TRANSLATE c TO UPPER CASE.
2. TRANSLATE c TO LOWER CASE.
3. TRANSLATE c USING c1.
4. TRANSLATE c ...FROM CODE PAGE g1...     TO CODE PAGE g2.
5. TRANSLATE f ...FROM NUMBER FORMAT n1... TO NUMBER FORMAT n2.
Note
Like all string processsing statements, you can only use character-type operands here.
If the type of an operand is not STRING, the operand is treated like a type C field, regardless of its actual type, even though no actual conversion takes place.
In an ABAP Objects context, a more severe syntax check is performed that in other ABAP areas. See Only character fields allowed in string processing.
Variant 1
TRANSLATE c TO UPPER CASE.
Variant 2
TRANSLATE c TO LOWER CASE.
Effect
The first variant converts all lowercase letters in c to uppercase. The second variant converts all uppercase letters to lowercase.
Example
DATA letters(3) TYPE C.
MOVE 'abc' TO letters.
TRANSLATE letters TO UPPER CASE.
letters now has the contents 'ABC'.
Note
The classification of upper- and lowercase, and the actual characters used are determined by the current text environment (see SET LOCALE LANGUAGE).
Variant 3
TRANSLATE c USING c1.
Effect
Translates the contents of c according to the rule in field c1.
When a character from c corresponds to a character from c1, it is replaced by the next character that occurs in c1. If the character appears more than once in c1, its first occurrence is used in the replacement. If a character from c does not occur in c1, it remains unchanged.
Example
DATA: letters(20) TYPE C VALUE 'abcabcabcXabc',
      change(15) TYPE C VALUE 'aXbaYBabZacZB'.
TRANSLATE letters USING change.
letters now contains 'XaZXaZXaZXXaZ'.
Variant 4
TRANSLATE c ...FROM CODE PAGE g1 ...TO CODE PAGE g2.
Parts marked with " ..." are interchangeable
TRANSLATE c TO   CODE PAGE g2.
TRANSLATE c FROM CODE PAGE g1.
Effect
Converts the contents of the field c from character set g1 to character set g2. This variant uses the conversion table g1 to determine the SAP character, which is then used to determine the new character from g2.
Transaction SPAD allows you to display and maintain character sets. If one of the conversion tables does not exist, the runtime error CONVERSION_CODEPAGE_UNKNOWN occurs. Conversion combinations that are maintained as part of the runtime system for performance reasons do not trigger runtime errors, and you cannot change them using Transaction SPAD.
Example
DATA c(72) TYPE C.
TRANSLATE c FROM CODE PAGE '1110' TO CODE PAGE '0100'.
This statement converts the contents of field c from the HP-UX character set to IBM EBCDIC.
Note
Fields with types I, P, F, and X remain unchanged by the conversion. The syntax check only allows character fields for specifying the codepage. However, since the codepage is maintained in table TCP00 as a type N field with length 4, you should use this type.
Variant 5
TRANSLATE f ...FROM NUMBER FORMAT n1 ...TO NUMBER FORMAT n2.
Parts marked with " ..." are interchangeable
TRANSLATE f TO NUMBER FORMAT n1.
TRANSLATE f FROM NUMBER FORMAT n1.
Effect
Converts the number formats in f. Currently, the number formats '0000' (HP, SINIX, IBM) and '0101' (DEC-alpha OSF) are supported. Other formats trigger the runtime error TRANSLATE_WRONG_NUM_FORMAT . If you omit FROM NUMBER FORMAT or TO NUMBER FORMAT, the system uses the system number format.
Example
DATA: f TYPE F,
      hex(2) TYPE X,
      nform LIKE tcp00-cpcodepage.
The contents of fields hex and f are stored in /ARCHIV
from another platform. hex is stored in a valid number
form when it is saved, and can therefore be read on
all platforms.
READ DATASET '/ARCHIV' INTO hex.
READ DATASET '/ARCHIV' INTO f.
nform = hex. "Conversion from non-host-specific. HEX into N(4)
TRANSLATE f FROM NUMBER FORMAT nform.
Effect
Converts the contents of f from the nform format of a given platform into the system representation.
Note
This converts fields with types I and F. As in variant 4, you should define the number formats with type N and length 4.
You can display system codepage and number formats using the function module SYSTEM_FORMAT. This allows you to store additional information for archiving purposes.
Note
Performance:
Converting lowercase letters to uppercase (or the other way round) in a 10 byte character field requires around 7 msn (standardized microseconds).
If you use ... c USING c1... to replace two characters of a 10 byte character field,the runtime is around 9 msn.
Note
Runtime errors:
TRANSLATE_WRONG_NUM_FORMAT: Invalid number format.
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write : letters.
Also refer
/people/alvaro.tejadagalindo/blog/2006/12/21/does-abap-lacks-of-string-processing
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Solution
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