Search special character

How to search for special characters (peculiars)
in the developer exchange, e.g. "[" "]"
or whole phrases like "controls[]"
Stefan Pofahl

I love the match pattern vi for these types of tasks. It is in the string section of the function palette. I have included an example written in LV7. Once you figure out the RegularExpression format, you will find this function to be the most powerful tool for these types of tasks.
-jayme
jc
Mac 10.4
LV7.1
CLD
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2    (company_id    NUMBER(10,0) NOT NULL ENABLE,
3      company_name VARCHAR2(50 BYTE))
4 /
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SCOTT@orcl12c> SET DEFINE OFF
SCOTT@orcl12c> BEGIN
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12 Insert into COMPANY_NEAR (COMPANY_ID,COMPANY_NAME) values (11,'LSG STAFFING, LLC');
13 Insert into COMPANY_NEAR (COMPANY_ID,COMPANY_NAME) values (12,'L & S GROUP LLC');
14 Insert into COMPANY_NEAR (COMPANY_ID,COMPANY_NAME) values (13,'L S & G, INC.');
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2 /
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2 FROM   company_near
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4            (company_name,
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7              <progression>
8                <seq>'       || :search_string            || '</seq>
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13            </textquery>
14             </query>',
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SCOTT@orcl12c> /
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Pattern-based replacement
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pattern
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... IN {BYTE|CHARACTER} MODE
Effect
The optional addition IN {BYTE|CHARACTER} MODE determines whether byte or character string processing will be executed. If the addition is not specified, character string processing is executed. Depending on the processing type, the data objects sub_string, new, and dobj must be byte or character type.
Addition 2
... LENGTH len
Effect
If the addition LENGTH is not specified, all the data objects involved are evaluated in their entire length. If the addition LENGTH is specified, only the first len bytes or characters of sub_string are used for the search. For len, a data object of the type i is expected.
If the length of the interim result is longer than the length of dobj, data objects of fixed length will be cut off to the right. If the length of the interim result is shorter than the length of dobj, data objects of fixed length are filled to the right with blanks or with hexadecimal 0. Data objects of variable length are adapted.
Example
After the replacements, text1 contains the complete content "I should know that you know", while text2 has the cut-off content "I should know that".
DATA:   text1      TYPE string       VALUE 'I know you know',
        text2(18) TYPE c LENGTH 18 VALUE 'I know you know',
        sub_string TYPE string       VALUE 'know',
        new        TYPE string       VALUE 'should know that'.
REPLACE sub_string WITH new INTO text1.
REPLACE sub_string WITH new INTO text2.

Find the Special character and non Ascii character

Hi:
i have table ,this table column name contain some datas like
sno name
1 CORPORATIVO ISO, S.A. DE C.V.
2 (주)엠투소프트
3 TIMELESS
4 南京南瑞集团公司
5 PHOTURIS
6 Ace Informática S/C ltda
7 Computacenter AG & Co. oHG
8 아이티앤씨
9 MOCA
10 anbarasan
my requirement:
1)i need to search the name column where contain the special character and non ascii character..if found any non ascii or spcial character ..need to say flag ''yes".if not found need to say "no"...kindly help on this issus...

i need some example..i am not have any idea....
i have table ,this table column name contain some datas like
sno name
1 CORPORATIVO ISO, S.A. DE C.V.
2 (주)엠투소프트
3 TIMELESS
4 南京南瑞集团公司
5 PHOTURIS
6 Ace Informática S/C ltda
7 Computacenter AG & Co. oHG
8 아이티앤씨
9 MOCA
10 anbarasan
my requirement:
1)i need to search the name column where contain the special character and non ascii character..if found any non ascii or spcial character ..need to say flag ''yes".if not found need to say "no"...kindly help on this issus...

Display special character for 'Artihmetic mean'

I can't find the character for 'Arthmetic mean', it's 'x' with a line above, any ideas!?
I've searched several font (Symbol, Wingdings etc) but didn't found that special character...!

Oh, I do apologise. I saw the character on wiki and assumed it was a character, rather than a graphic.
Usually, to create interesting unicode characters, you can combine diacritics. For instance, xbar is X followed by ¯;
x̄
(might not display on unsupported browsers)
However LabVIEW doesn't support this, and will print x ¯ and I can't find any info on how else it might be implemented.
You might be able to find a hack in this document
And in the meantime, you can kudo this suggestion
- Cheers, Ed

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Hi,
I have developed a report which display the result in ALV. I found that the character '&' was converted to another symbol. Is there any FM or thing that can resolve this?? Besides, when I put '&' in the forum search, it returns error. Does SAP support special character??
Regards,
Kit

Hi Kit,
You could try something with special characters :
e.g. this code
&#171 material &#187
produces this output
« material »
Even better is this one &#60 material &#62.
kindly reward if found helpful.
cheers,
Hema.

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hi expert
i have ascenario
g_data = 12@456&3_a^ !.
i have to fetch the special character in the particulat field !! any functional module is available . r any other method available

Hi, Irfan
Please do a little Search you will get answer here is the best Reply from The specified item was not found. in the following Thread.
logic to replace special charaters by space
Hope this will solve out your problem,
Thanks and Best Regards,
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