Re: Storing non-printable chars in CHAR columns

>Now if you need to store a binary value, whose first byte may be '\\0' >(say COBOL low-value), in a CHAR column, how do you work-around >it so that Informix does not consider the value a database NULL >and be able to retrieve the column back with the original value? > >Thanks, Victor Well, we cheat. We identify the columns ahead of time, then allocate one extra byte for each column (the leading byte), which our low-level routines always set to blank. Of course, it helps to have all of our Informix I/O going through a common set of routines. Todd