How to Find Text/String in Abap Code

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 Alwin van de Put

EWK1

CODE_SCANNER

SE38%20%3A%20RS_ABAP_SOURCE_SCAN

SE38 : RS_ABAP_SOURCE_SCAN

Hope those are useful for you.

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Mike Pokraka

March 22, 2023 at 1:19 pm

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

Blog Post Author

March 22, 2023 at 2:43 pm

Thanks for sharing Mike.

Matthew Billingham

March 27, 2023 at 11:19 am

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! 🙂

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