Non-Alphanumeric Character in a String

I understand if we have a non-alphanumeric character in a String, we have to put a backward slash in front of that character. For example, we have to put a backward slach in front of a "backward slash". Eg. we do \\ to put a backward slash in a String.
What about a dot (.) or a dash (-)? Do we have to do the same thing?

No, it's only for control characters like "newline", characters with special meaning in strings i.e. " and \ and any character that can't be represented in the character encoding of your java source file.

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Dear all,
To start an application that i have developped, i would like that the user write its password in the first panel but i want that each time that user enter a character in the string control Hide_Password (see attached picture), this one is automatically convert in a "." to hide the password . The real password is saved in a second string control. It is actually what my vi is doing by using a Key Up event. But now i want to prevent any non alphanumerical character to be enter in the password, especially i do not want that the user can press the menu key as <Ctrl>, <Shift>, <Alt>, <Command>, and <Option> and also the <Left>, <Up>, <Right>, <Down>. I suppose that i have to use Key Down? event by discarding all the key that i do not want but i am sure that there is a more easy way to do it.
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The real password is saved in a second string control.
One thing you shouldn't do is use a (hidden?) String control for data storage. Use the one control for data input (as a password as others have suggested) and pass the data throughout your program with a wire.
Jim
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I use ALPHANUM datatype in one table with 127 size. As per definition in Developer guide
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Message was edited by: Tom Flanagan

Hmm... not sure about PASAL ... never heard of that one and it doesn't pop up in my search engine of choice.
But as you describe it, it seems to be a standard/convention on how to name your variables.
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MS SQL Server encodes data very differently from SAP HANA. And Oracle stores data differently than IBM DB 2 and mySQL stores data differently than PostgreSQL ....
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.oO(surfinIan)
>I have a script that converts a ms word document to text
then uploads that to a
>blob field on a mysql db.
> During the conversion some characters my not be
recognised. When i then call
>up the blob for display on the browser...those characters
show up as unknown
>characters with a ? or box. Is there a way to
preg_replace those unknown
>characters before displaying them.
What about fixing the encoding problem instead? If chars get
lost during
such a transfer
document->script->database->script->browser it's always
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The recommendation these days is to use UTF-8, which avoids
most of
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documents are
properly stored as UTF-8 in the database and delivered as
such to the
script and the browser, then you don't have to worry about
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anymore.
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Hi
SEARCH
Variants:
1. SEARCH f    FOR g.
2. SEARCH itab FOR g.
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.
See Only character fields allowed in string processing.
Variant 1
SEARCH f FOR g.
Additions:
1. ... ABBREVIATED
2. ... STARTING AT n1
3. ... ENDING   AT n2
4. ... AND MARK
Effect
Searches the contents of f for the string in the field g. This string can have any of the following formats:
'str'
a character string (trailing spaces are ignored)
'.str.'
any character string between the periods
'*str'
a word ending with "str", including "str"
'str*'
a word beginning with "str", including "str"
You can use any non-alphanumeric character as a separator, that is, spaces, punctuation marks and non-printable characters.
Note
The search patterns 'str' and '.str.' are identical apart from a few exceptions. You must use '.str.' when the pattern str contains spaces (at the end), the '.' character (at the beginning and end), or the '*' character (at the end). You should also use '.str.' when the contents of the search string str is a variable, since you cannot predict when you write the statement what the contents of the string will be.
The system does not distinguish between upper and lower case characters.
The return code is set as follows:
SY-SUBRC = 0:
The search string g was found in the field f. SY-FDPOS contains the offset of the found string or the found word within the field.
SY-SUBRC = 4:
The search string g was not found in the field f.
Addition 1
... ABBREVIATED
Effect
Searches the field f for a word containing the character string specified in the field. Here, the characters specified in g may be separated by other characters in the word. If the string g occurs in a word, the return code in system field SY-SUBRC is set to 0. The first letter of the search string g and of the word must match.
Example
DATA F(50).
MOVE 'Alaska Texas California' TO F.
SEARCH F FOR 'Clfrn' ABBREVIATED.
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Addition 2
... STARTING AT n1
Effect
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When you use the addition STARTING AT, the position specified for the found pattern in SY-FDPOS does not refer to the start of the field, but to the position n1.
Addition 3
... ENDING AT n2
Effect
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Addition 4
... AND MARK
Effect
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Example
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Variant 2
SEARCH itab FOR g.
Additions:
1. ... ABBREVIATED
2. ... STARTING AT line1
3. ... ENDING   AT line2
4. ... AND MARK
Effect
Searches the internal table itab for the string in field g. The string can have the same format as in variant 1. The value of SY-SUBRC is set to 0, if the search string is found in the table. The system field SY-TABIX then contains the number of the table line where the string was found. Meanwhile, SY-FDPOS specifies the offset of the found string within the table line.
Note
The statement does not search the header line of an internal table itab.
Addition 1
... ABBREVIATED
Effect
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Addition 2
... STARTING AT line1
Effect
Searches the internal table itab starting from line line1 to the end. line1 can be a field that contains the corresponding values.
Addition 3
... ENDING AT line2
Effect
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Addition 4
... AND MARK
Effect
If the search string g is found, all the characters of that search string and all the characters occurring in between (in the case of SEARCH ABBREVIATED) are converted to upper case in the internal table itab.
Example
Let T be an internal table which is empty:
TYPES: BEGIN OF T_TYPE,
        LINE(80),
      END OF T_TYPE.
DATA: T TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF T_TYPE WITH
             NON-UNIQUE DEFAULT KEY,
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MOVE 'Alaska Texas       ' TO WA_T.
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MOVE 'California Arizona ' TO WA_T.
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'California ARIZONA'
Note
Performance:
Searching generically for a string in an internal table is much more runtime-intensive (approx. 5000 msn (standardized microseconds)) than searching for 'str' (approx. 20 msn). This was measured using a table with 200 entries and 10 fields.
If you perform a search in a field which is 50 bytes long for 'str' or 'str', the runtime consumption is approx. 300 msn, whereas searching for 'str' takes about 15 msn.
Regards,
Raghav

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.oO(AngryCloud)
>Yes, this does help, although it is only alphabetic.
>
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>
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