Chapter 4. Regular Expressions

In this chapter, we will see recipes related to regular expressions as used in ABAP. We will look at:

• Using regex as an IF statement

• Removal of characters from a string

• Converting date into internal date type

• Validation of format (telephone number)

• Removing repeated words from text string

• Inserting commas in an amount string

• Removing comments from program code

• Interpreting HTML stream