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.
Follow these steps:
- In the variant specification, expand the Search Function node. This checks appear as shown in the following screenshot:
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Click the
icon to enter values for the Search of ABAP Tokens function.
- Then, enter the search string in the Search Strig dialog box that appears.
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Enter one token in the field. For search of multiple tokens within the code, select the icon.
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For searching for ABAP statement patterns, click the
icon for the check.
- Then enter the single value in the field provided as shown in the following screenshot:
- Finally run the inspection.
The search for token function will search all the programs for the token FROM and T512T and will highlight when found in the results. Suppose the word FROM occurs twice and T512T appears once in the display, then total three messages will be displayed, that is, one for each found token.
For the pattern search, the programs are scanned for all SELECT statements that read data from tables having names beginning from PA00 followed by two characters such as PA0023, PA0008, and so on, followed by CLIENT SPECIFIED. The asterisk (*) after SELECT does not mean the code for fetching all fields of the database table but is a search function operator that means any set of tokens after the token SELECT such as *, PERNR INTO WA_PERNR, and so on.