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SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook

By : Rehan Zaidi
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SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook

By: Rehan Zaidi

Overview of this book

ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) is SAP's proprietary 4th Generation Language (4GL). SAP core is written almost entirely in ABAP.ABAP is a high level programming language used in SAP for development and other customization processes."SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook"ù covers advanced SAP programming applications with ABAP. It teaches you to enhance SAP applications by developing custom reports and interfaces with ABAP programming. This cookbook has quick and advanced real world recipes for programming ABAP.It begins with the applications of ABAP Objects and ALV tips and tricks. It then covers Design Patterns and Dynamic Programming in detail.You will also learn the usage of quality improvement tools such as transaction SAT, SQL Trace, and the Code Inspector.Simple transformations and its application in Excel Downloading will also be discussed, as well as the newest topics of Adobe Interactive Forms and the consumption and creation of Web services. The book comes to an end by covering advanced usage of Web Dynpro for ABAP and the latest advancement in Floorplan Manager.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Searching for ABAP statement patterns and tokens within code


In addition to the quality, performance checks, you may use the Search Function node provided to formulate your own criteria in order to search for tokens and ABAP statement patterns within the program(s) in question. In this recipe, we will see how this may be done.

How to do it...

Follow these steps:

  1. In the variant specification, expand the Search Function node. This checks appear as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. Click the icon to enter values for the Search of ABAP Tokens function.
  3. Then, enter the search string in the Search Strig dialog box that appears.

  4. Enter one token in the field. For search of multiple tokens within the code, select the icon.
  5. For searching for ABAP statement patterns, click the icon for the check.
  6. Then enter the single value in the field provided as shown in the following screenshot:

  7. Finally run the inspection.

How it works...

The search for token function will search all the programs for the token...