topic Re: abap code inspector (tx : SCI) to detect certain patterns in Application Development and Automation Discussions

abap code inspector (tx : SCI) to detect certain patterns

jihoon_kim — Tue, 20 May 2008 01:40:17 GMT

Hello Experts,

I want to use SAP Code Inspector to detect common problematic ABAP codes for all developed programs.

But, I don't know how to make the check variant for detecting follwoing three patterns.

SELECT * FROM

SELECT * INTO

SELECT SINGLE * INTO

I guess I can use "Search for ABAP tokens" or "Search for ABAP statements paterns". But, It did'nt work because ' * ' represents any sequence of characters in the code inspector.

Anyone can help me?

Re: abap code inspector (tx : SCI) to detect certain patterns

jihoon_kim — Tue, 20 May 2008 09:41:18 GMT

I managed to set up the variant, however found a problem.

I used "Search ABAP Statement Patterns" under "Search Functs" and set the pattern like followings.

SELECT + INTO *

SELECT SINGLE + INTO *

However following statements were detected.

SELECT * INTO TABLE IT_DRAW FROM DRAW.

SELECT MANDT INTO TABLE IT_DRAW FROM DRAW.

SELECT SINGLE * INTO TABLE IT_DRAW FROM DRAW.

SELECT SINGLE MANDT INTO TABLE IT_DRAW FROM DRAW.

It's because + means one ABAP token in the code inspector.

Is there anyway to find only "SELECT SINGLE *" and "SELECT *" ?

Re: abap code inspector (tx : SCI) to detect certain patterns

ThomasZloch — Tue, 20 May 2008 09:51:46 GMT

Hi,

interesting problem. SCI is a great tool, but you might be able to make this particular scan by using program RPR_ABAP_SOURCE_SCAN instead.

Cheers

Thomas

Re: abap code inspector (tx : SCI) to detect certain patterns

jihoon_kim — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:33:24 GMT

Thanks..

RPR_ABAP_SOURCE_SCAN works as I expected.

By the way, "Performance Check" -> "Copy Large Data Objects" -> "Wide Structures (> 1000B)"

can also be used as a work around.