ABAP Editor

ABAP Editor

Tcode: SE38 -> ABAP Editor
ABAP - Advanced Business application Programming
4 – 4th Generation Language.

Enter the name of the program you want to create/change/display.
All cutom programs should begin from 'Y' or 'Z'. SAP reserves the letters 'A' through 'X' for their own programs.
You can specify the attributes,variants,program type.
Program types:
-> Executable
-> Module pool
-> Subroutine pool
-> Class
-> Include
-> Function module
-> Interfaces

Features
The Front-End Editor (Plain Text Mode) has the following features:
· Local scrolling
· Cut, copy, and paste for selected text areas
· Drag and drop
· Context menu for accessing editor functions
· Local Find and Replace function
· Navigation to a selected line (using the context menu)
· Access to the buffer and block operations (using the context menu)
· Commenting out text blocks
· Working with blocks and clipboards
· Navigation functions (forward navigation)
· Syntax check, displaying error messages and warnings in a separate window
· Colored highlighting for comment lines
· Automatic line feed when the maximum line width is reached
· Insert Statement function.
· Multiple-step undo and redo functions
· Displays current cursor position
· Pretty Printer for standardizing the layout
· Import and export for local files.

Hello World Program

In the Editor write the following code:

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Report 'Zhello_world'.

WRITE 'Hello World'.

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On Activating and Executing the above program, the output is:

Hello World