Splitting a string in different substrings

Hallo,
I want to split a string of any length in new substrings and want to save these substrings in different variables.
I tried as following:
data:
      string type string value 'Hallo SAP world',  "This could be any string with any lenght
      offset type i value 0,
      str_len type i,
      new_str type string.
str_len = strlen( string ).
do 5 times.
  new_str = string+offset(3).
  write : new_str.
  write : ' '.
  offset = offset + 3.
   enddo.
1_ Has anyone any idea, how to save the new substrings in different variables?
2_ Since the new substring has length 3. So how many times should the do-loop run?
Thanks
ama

Hi, Muhammed Aftab Alam
Test the following Sample code it working the same way you are requiring, I have Tested,
REPORT zfsl_sub_string.
DATA: main_string TYPE string,
      len_string TYPE i,
      reminder TYPE i,
      string_from TYPE i.
main_string = 'Hallo SAP World'. " You can give any string here.
len_string = STRLEN( main_string ).
DO 3 TIMES.
  reminder = len_string MOD 3.
  IF reminder NE 0.
    CONCATENATE main_string ' ' into main_string SEPARATED BY space.
  len_string = strlen( main_string ).
  ENDIF.
ENDDO.
len_string = len_string div 3.
string_from = 0.
DO len_string TIMES.
  WRITE: / main_string+string_from(3).
  ADD 3 TO : string_from.
ENDDO.
Following too the same as above just add PARAMETER for input String
REPORT zfsl_sub_string.
PARAMETERS: pstring TYPE string.
DATA: "pstring TYPE string,
      len_string TYPE i,
      reminder TYPE i,
      string_from TYPE i.
*pstring = 'Hallo SAP World'. " You can give any string here.
len_string = STRLEN( pstring ).
DO 3 TIMES.
  reminder = len_string MOD 3.
  IF reminder NE 0.
    CONCATENATE pstring ' ' into pstring SEPARATED BY space.
  len_string = strlen( pstring ).
  ENDIF.
ENDDO.
len_string = len_string div 3.
string_from = 0.
DO len_string TIMES.
  WRITE: / pstring+string_from(3).
  ADD 3 TO : string_from.
ENDDO.
Please Reply if any Problem,
Kind Regards,
Faisal
Edited by: Faisal Altaf on Jan 27, 2009 3:06 PM

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