Hi friends, Problems with Special Characters in Table download to Excel.

Question

Hi friends,
I am using Binary Cache method to download to excel. The problem is that there are certain fields in the back end R/3  that has special characters in it eg : & * £ # etc.
As a result, the download is not working for these rows. Please can any of you tell me how to get rid of this. As an example let's say I wan to replace the "&" with "and".
Please help.
Thank You.
Avik

Answer 1

hi,
Hope you find tgis of some help !!
public void ReplaceMethod( )
    //@@begin ReplaceMethod()
    // get the string value of the cell (for you from the table cell, for eg, Pinki & Rakesh)
    test = wdContext.currentTestStringConversionElement().getInput();
    // calculate the total length of the String
    n=test.length ();
    if(n!=0)
            for(i=1;i<=n;i++)
// catching each character from the String
                        c = test.charAt (i-1);
        // checking if any character within the String (eg, Pinki & Rakesh)  is “&”            
                           if (c=='&')
                                                            wdContext.currentTestStringConversionElement().setOutput(Character.toString(c));
                                                            no=i;
                                                            break;
            String val = Integer.toString(no);
                           //wdContext.currentTestStringConversionElement().setNo(val);
            // breaking the String and adding “ and” in place of “&”            
                        sub1=   test.substring(0,i-1);
                        sub2= "  and  ";
                        sub3= test.substring(i,n);
                  //Concatenating the String   
                        test1 = sub1sub2sub3;
                  //Printing the String  
                        wdContext.currentTestStringConversionElement().setOutput(test1);