Fetch first letter ex : 101th avenue.

Question

hi Expertes,
i have high priority issue where i have vendor name where it can be like below names:
101 Computers
12th Ave Bearings
10-K Laser Printing
10 2nd Avenue Houghton Estate
if it is a number as we see above it should ignore and take the first character of the name.
ex :  name : 101 computers - first letter should be 'C'.
        name : 12th Ave bearings - first letter should be 'A'.
        name : 10-k Laser printing - first letter should be 'L'.
so if this is the case how can i get the first letter.
if it where to be number and number i would have ignored the number but this scenario has both number and character.
how can i determine the first letter of the character in above case.
your valuble contribution is really highly appriciated.
thank you,
pasala.

Answer 1

Hello Pasala,
If i understand correctly you need to pick the first alphabet after the space.
Suppose your string contains:
1st 2nd 3rd GOK Appliances
, then the output should be 'G'. Right ??
If so, you can try something like this:
DATA:
V_STR TYPE STRING,
ITAB TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF STRING,
WA TYPE STRING.
MOVE <vendor_name> TO V_STR.
SPLIT V_STR AT ` ` INTO TABLE ITAB.
LOOP AT ITAB INTO WA.
  IF WA+0(1) CO SY-ABCDE.
    WRITE: WA+0(1).
    EXIT.
  ENDIF.
ENDLOOP.
Hope this helps.
BR,
Suhas