Unicode issue for keyword SEARCH

Question

Hi All...
In a report keyword SEARCH is used to find entry in internal table. basically this will find any value in internal table and will return sy-tabix as line number where the value exists.
Syntax:     SEARCH itab FOR seek.
where itab is internal table and seek is variable which can contain any value to be searched in itab.
When i set 'Unicode check active' attribute in program attribute, while activating program i am getting error as: <b>Table "KEN3" must have a character line type (data type C, N, D, T, or STRING).</b>
When i try to add additons In byte mode and in charecter mode, i am getting incompability errors.
Is there any solution/alternative for this error. I am trying to make my program unicode compliant.     
TIA,
Agasti.

Answer 1

Hi
I think ur itab is having all the fields of the table
Because of MANDT only it is generating the error declare ur itab below.
I wrote the code like this and it is not generating any error
Kindly have a look.
data : begin of it_mara1,
       matnr like mara-matnr,
       meins like mara-meins,
       BLANZ like mara-BLANZ,
      end of it_mara1.
search it_mara1 for 'new'." in character mode.
Regards
Shiva