Business requirment经常要求某个ID的值只能包含26个字母和10个数字字符，这就要求ABAP程序能够检查相应变量内容，辨别特殊字符。sap-img上的一个例子提供了这样的功能：
REPORT ZCHECK_ALPHA_NUMERIC.
* Declare the variable
* For Length
data: serial_length type i.
* For Alpha numeric
data: str type string.
data: valid_characters type string.
* Fill in those valid characters you need to check
concatenate ‘0123456789’ ‘ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ’
‘abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz’ into valid_characters.
* User Input
parameters testchar(10) default ‘12345abc’.
* Get User Input
str = testchar.
* The Checks
if str co valid_characters.
write: / str, ‘Characters are OK’.
else.
write: / str, ‘Characters are NOT OK’.
endif.
*– End Program
基于同样的原理，下面这个subroutine可以去掉一个字符串中的所有特殊字符
*&———————————————————————*
*& Form convert_character_entities
*&———————————————————————*
* This form removes all non-alpha-numeric characters from a string
*———————————————————————-*
* <–
*———————————————————————-*
FORM remove_non_alpha_numeric_char.
DATA: l_teststr TYPE string,
l_alpha_numeric TYPE string.
DATA: l_strlen TYPE i.
DATA: l_char TYPE c.
l_teststr = ‘ref0 0@2$45*8’.
l_strlen = strlen( l_teststr ).
WRITE: / l_teststr, ‘length:’, l_strlen.
l_alpha_numeric = ‘0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ’.
WHILE l_strlen <> 0.
l_strlen = l_strlen – 1.
l_char = l_teststr+l_strlen(1).
IF l_alpha_numeric NA l_char.
REPLACE SECTION OFFSET l_strlen LENGTH 1 OF l_teststr WITH ”.
ENDIF.
ENDWHILE.
l_strlen = strlen( l_teststr ).
WRITE: / l_teststr, ‘length:’, l_strlen.
ENDFORM.