Re: How to see a character between 0x00 and 0x08

Posted in 2003

Jonathan Leffler — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 05:30:53 GMT — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Peter Michel wrote: > i have a problem on a SE 7.3 db. There are one-character fields with > nonprintable characters with 0x0, 0x1 - 0x8. > I tried "select field[15]+0 typ ..."and "select field[15]+'0' ... " > and got conversation errors :-( > Is there a trick out in the world? I wasn't aware that SE 7.3x had been released; I thought the maximum version was still 7.26. No, I don't think there's an easy way to do what you seek outside of a program written in C - using ODBC or ESQL/C - or Java. There is no implicit conversion from a character to the integer corresponding to the character's code. -- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2003.04 -- http://dbi.perl.org/