topic How to convert an ABAP code to PSEUDOCODE in Application Development and Automation Discussions

How to convert an ABAP code to PSEUDOCODE

former_member650847 — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 14:50:59 GMT

I was just seeking advice.

Re: How to convert an ABAP code to PSEUDOCODE

Sandra_Rossi — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 15:24:32 GMT

I guess you want to parse your source code by running some ABAP code as you have entered ABAP development tag, so create an ABAP program which calls a parser. There are many free parsing software all around the world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing#Parser_development_software). Enter the ABAP SELECT grammar somewhere, in BNF language for instance, and with your parser, parse the ABAP code based on this grammar, and return the result to your ABAP program.

Re: How to convert an ABAP code to PSEUDOCODE

abo — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 15:35:12 GMT

Somehow I think the goal is a natural language explanation of that select 🙂

Re: How to convert an ABAP code to PSEUDOCODE

Sandra_Rossi — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 15:44:28 GMT

c5e08e0478aa4727abc4482f5be390b2 I think the goal of the OP is about how to convert SQL code into automatic specification.

Re: How to convert an ABAP code to PSEUDOCODE

former_member650847 — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 19:11:14 GMT

No. In normal circumstances, one would create PSEUDOCODE first then create ABAP code.

In my case, the opposite - ABAP code was written first and now they want that ABAP code to be converted to PSEUDOCODE.

Re: How to convert an ABAP code to PSEUDOCODE

Sandra_Rossi — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 05:57:05 GMT

Maybe edit your question to provide an example of what "PSEUDOCODE" you want for the given ABAP code.

Re: How to convert an ABAP code to PSEUDOCODE

former_member650847 — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 10:45:49 GMT

Well, by definition PSEUDOCODE is english like language. I am new at this. They want me to convert the ABAP code to English like language explaining what the code does.

I cannot post the whole program here - but if you give me your email I can send it to you.

Re: How to convert an ABAP code to PSEUDOCODE

ChrisSolomon — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 12:28:33 GMT

"now they want that ABAP code"...who is they?

If you can not write out in "English" (ie non-technical terms) what your code actually is doing then you do not know your code and must have just copy-pasted it. Saying something like "This code selects the name, position, and company of an employee from their organizational and personal data records based on the employee ID matching in both." is much easier for a non-developer to understand and is "pseudo-code" but you can also define "pseudo-code" as an outline or rough draft of the code without being syntax specific. For example,
Select this that and the other fields from table1 and table 2 joined on field X into internal table ZZZ.

Sort ZZZ by field this.
Read the first 10 fields where field this = blah

that is also pseudo-code. It just depends on the level of abstraction you want.....excuse me....that THEY want.