Search Package Body for Keywords

Question

I would like to know if anyone has a query to search a package body for a particular word and then return all of the procedure names where that word (or words) are found. I am in the beginning stages of a 3-5 year upgrade/re-write project and just when I think that I have been given all of the requirements "they" come up with something else. Go figure! For instance I might need to find all of the procedures for a package or packages that contain the word product. Manually searching through all of my packages is very time consuming and I'm sure that someone out there has already written a query to do this.
Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
Randy

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I would like to know if anyone has a query to search a package body for a particular word and then return all of the procedure names where that word (or words) are found. I am in the beginning stages of a 3-5 year upgrade/re-write project and just when I think that I have been given all of the requirements "they" come up with something else. Go figure! For instance I might need to find all of the procedures for a package or packages that contain the word product. Manually searching through all of my packages is very time consuming and I'm sure that someone out there has already written a query to do this.
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A query? No
Would you settle for Oracle supplied functionality that can probably provide all of that cross-reference information for you?
As you can tell from all of the other replies it seems many, if not most, people are not familiar with PL/Scope, which was introduced in version 11.1 (you should always provide your 4 digit Oracle version).
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PL/Scope is a compiler-driven tool that collects data about identifiers in PL/SQL source code at program-unit compilation time and makes it available in static data dictionary views. The collected data includes information about identifier types, usages (declaration, definition, reference, call, assigment) and the location of each usage in the source code.
PL/Scope enables the development of powerful and effective PL/Scope source code browsers that increase PL/SQL developer productivity by minimizing time spent browsing and understanding source code.
PL/Scope is intended for application developers, and will usually be used in the environment of a development database.
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See Chapter 8 Using PL/Scope in the Advanced Appication Developer's Guide
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/appdev.111/b28424/adfns_plscope.htm
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Specifying Identifier Collection
By default, PL/Scope does not collect data for identifiers in the PL/SQL source program. To have PL/Scope collect data for all identifiers in the PL/SQL source program, including identifiers in package bodies, set the PL/SQL compilation parameter PLSCOPE_SETTINGS to 'IDENTIFIERS:ALL'.
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Without knowing your actual needs or requirements I can't speculate on whether this will give you everything you are looking for.
But don't reinvent the wheel without checking this out first.
Basically just set the compilation parameter and recompile all of the code. Then there will be static dictionary views available with the cross-reference data.
Even if you are not currently using 11g if I were you I would create an 11g sandbox with all of the objects and code (no data needed) just so you could use PL/Scope to get this cross-reference information.