How to Find Text/String in Abap Code

[beyhan_meyrali]

Hi,

Sometimes when you want to find a text it may not appear on usage list results.

In those cases, you can use following transaction codes/reports to search string code blocks, including enhancements.

• Transaction EWK1 - Find text in code, including badi/enhancements


• Transaction CODE_SCANNER


• Report(SE38) RS_ABAP_SOURCE_SCAN

 

• Bonus : How to find related CDS views hierarchically by alwinvandeputmybrand

EWK1

 

CODE_SCANNER

 

SE38 : RS_ABAP_SOURCE_SCAN

 

Hope those are useful for you.

[pokrakam]

There's also the Eclipse / ADT search which is much faster but only works on HANA.

Also needs to be set up by basis, see https://blogs.sap.com/2014/01/23/abap-sourcecode-search/

[beyhan_meyrali]

Thanks for sharing Mike.

[matt]

EWK1 is not part of the Basis package so won't exist in all systems - e.g. BW. It's weirdly in the EWU package: All objects for EURO conversion! What were they thinking! 🙂