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Character-Like Expression Positions
Character-like expression positions are reader positions in which character-like data objects , string expressions , and predefined functions , or functional methods and method chainings whose return value has a character-like data type , can be specified. The following character-like expression positions exist:

Operand positions in string expressions

Character-like arguments in processing functions

Character-like arguments in description functions

Operand comp of the statement

ASSIGN COMPONENT comp OF STRUCTURE

Regular expression regex in the statements

FIND ... REGEX regex ... IN ...
REPLACE ... REGEX regex ... IN ...

Search pattern substring in the statements

FIND ... SUBSTRING substring ... IN ...
REPLACE ... SUBSTRING substring ... IN ...

Operand dobj in the statement

FIND ... IN dobj ...

Operand new in the statement

REPLACE ... WITH new ...
REPLACE ... IN TABLE ... WITH new ...

Operand substring in the statement

SHIFT ... UP TO substring

Operand mask in the statement

SHIFT ... DELETING ... mask

Operands dobj and sep in the statement

SPLIT dobj AT sep INTO ...

Operand text in the statement

CONVERT text INTO SORTABLE CODE ...

Operands text2 and text2 in the statement

OVERLAY ... WITH text2 USING mask

Operand mask in the statement

TRANSLATE ... USING mask

Operand sub in the statement

ASSERT ... SUBKEY sub ...
LOG-POINT ... SUBKEY sub ...

Operands text and dobj1 through dobj4 in the statements

MESSAGE text ...
MESSAGE ... WITH dobj1 ... dobj4