BLOB Datatype question ?

}Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 11:13:28 -0800 }To: informix-list-owner@rmy.emory.edu }From: Sudhir Nair <sudhirn@dg85.fourgen.com> }Subject: BLOB Datatype question ? } }Does anybody know of a built in function or have written a function to find out the content of a byte column. I have a byte column that couldhold either text or binary data (like voice, picture,etc). Is there a way to find out if the data in that column is a text or binary(picture, voice,etc). } }I have a situation here where an application stores a value which is an alert into a column. This alert could be a memo text, it could be voice, it could be even a picture. Hence I store this input to a byte column. Now there is a second program that has to check this column and find out if the content is a memo, voice, etc and do an appropriate action. } }Does anyone have any suggestions, Please forward it to sudhirn@fourgen.com } }Thanks, }Sudhir }