Payment Notes Parser using Regular Expressions
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In order to process incoming payments, it is necessary to parse the payment notes transmitted by the bank by bank statement. FS-CD only offers the standard SAP pattern recognition with the wildcards + or *. In most cases this will certainly suffice, especially if depositors can be given standardized payment notes. However, there may be scenarios in which the payment notes cannot be standardized, for example, in the B2B area, if the payers use different accounting systems with different payment notes. In such a scenario, you quickly reach the limits of the SAP standard, and a hard-coded ABAP solution is doomed to failure from the outset because it is far too inflexible. In such a scenario, regular expressions are useful for pattern recognition. read more...