Position of Character in a string

Hi all,
Consider the string ,
" Hello World"
where the space before the letter H in Hello are empty character spaces. Can anyone tell me how I can find the position of the letter H from the beginning of the sentence using String processing ?
Thank you.

Hi,
Use SY-FDPOS system variable to find out the position of string.
SY-FDPOS
Location of hit in string operations.
When you use CO,CN, CA, NA, CS, NS, CP, and NP, offset values are assigned to SYFDPOS
depending on the search result.
SEARCH FOR sets SY-FDPOS to the offset of the search string.
Example:
DATA: STRING(30) VALUE 'This is a fast first example.',
POS TYPE I,
OFF TYPE I.
WRITE / STRING.
SEARCH STRING FOR 'ft' ABBREVIATED.
WRITE: / 'SY-FDPOS:', SY-FDPOS.
POS = SY-FDPOS + 2.
SEARCH STRING FOR 'ft' ABBREVIATED STARTING AT POS AND MARK.
WRITE / STRING.
WRITE: / 'SY-FDPOS:', SY-FDPOS.
OFF = POS + SY-FDPOS -1.
WRITE: / 'Off:', OFF.
Regards,
Bhaskar

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