How to Determine Length of variable up to period (.)

Question

I have  a variable called my_var  in an ABAP and it is passed many #’s  and they may or may not have some text following these #’s --- these #’s can have a  Length of up to 13 and will always have 3 Decimal Places.  I need to find a way to return the length of the # up to the decimal place.
The # is always first in this variable, it will always have a .000 and it may or may not have text following it.  The only way I can think of doing this is to
loop through the my_var one character at a time to find the decimal place and to determine the length.    Does anyone have any other ideas?
Examples:
my_var = “22.000 ABC”  would return the length of 2
my_var = “0.000            this is more text” would return the length of 1
my_var = “1200000.00”  would return the length of 7
my_var = 87098.000” would return a length of 5
my_var = “987.000    this is text again” would return a lenth of 3
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Answer 1

Hi ,
try this
data : var1 type char20 value '222.000ABC'.
data : part1 type char10,
        part2 type char10.
data : lv_int type i.
split var1 at '.' into part1 part2.
lv_int = strlen( part1 ).
write : 'length of Interger Before decimal',lv_int.
Regards
pavan