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Character-Like Expression Positions

Character-like expression positions are reading positions in which character-like data objects, constructor expressions, string expressions, table expressions, and built-in functions can be specified, as well as functional method calls and method chainings whose return values have a character-like data type. The following character-like expression positions exist:

Other versions: 7.31 | 7.40 | 7.54


Example

Uses a string expression ( && sub && )+ to create a regular expression in the statement FIND to make it possible to find groups of a substring sub.

DATA: text TYPE string, 
      sub  TYPE string. 

FIND REGEX `(` && sub && `)+` IN text.