SAP ABAP Data Element DDFINDSTR (Search String in the Dictionary)

Hierarchy

☛ SAP_BASIS (Software Component) SAP Basis Component
   ⤷ BC-DWB-DIC-ED (Application Component) Dictionary Maintenance
     ⤷ SEDD (Package) DDIC Editor

Basic Data

Data Element	DDFINDSTR
Short Description	Search String in the Dictionary

Data Type

Category of Dictionary Type	D	Domain
Type of Object Referenced		No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type	CHAR30
Data Type	CHAR	Character String
Length	30
Decimal Places	0
Output Length	30
Value Table

Further Characteristics

Search Help: Name
Search Help: Parameters
Parameter ID
Default Component name
Change document	☐
No Input History	☐
Basic direction is set to LTR	☐
No BIDI Filtering	☐

Field Label

	Length	Field Label
Short	10	Find
Medium	15	Find
Long	20	Find
Heading	30	Search String

Documentation

Definition

You can use '+' and '*' as wildcards in your entry, where '+' stands for any character and '*' stands for any string of characters.

The escape character is '#', so to search for the characters '+', '*' or '#', you would enter #+, #* or ## respectively.

History

Last changed by/on	SAP	19970606
SAP Release Created in