How to remove the characters from first and last position of a string?

Question

Hi all,
I am creating an application where i am using vb script to export the data to excel.
In the excel sheet most of the values are entered with double " quotes.
so the entry looks like ""http://www.sap.com"".
Notice that it is starting with "" and not " . so the vb takes it as a line feed and shows an error .
It will be great if anybody can tell me how to remove these set of quotes ,so that the value should come as "http://www.sap.com" . A sample code wil be of great help.
Thanks in advance,
mahima.

Answer 1

Hi,
To modify you excel you have 2 options, 1) you can filter them in excel itself by using filter ...etc in excel itself. or 2) you can do it by using ABAP code.
Below code may help you.
Get the data from Excel to Internal table using FM :
call function 'ALSM_EXCEL_TO_INTERNAL_TABLE'
  exporting
    filename                = 'c:\temp\test.xls'
    i_begin_col             = 1
    i_begin_row             = 1
    i_end_col               = w_values
    i_end_row               = 10
  tables
    intern                  = t_alsmex_tabline
  exceptions
    inconsistent_parameters = 1
    upload_ole              = 2
    others                  = 3.
Now replace all unwanted "" in internal table with space.
replace all occurrences of '""' in itab-field with '   '.
Again you can export to Excel using
  call function 'GUI_DOWNLOAD'
    exporting
      filename                = lv_file
      filetype                = 'DAT'
      append                  = ' '
      write_field_separator   = 'X'
    tables
      data_tab                = itab.