At 12:00 PM 5/5/00 -0700, Markus Kemper wrote:

>
> > PS. Just to stay on topic, I would absolutely love to see more system
> > functions added to InterBase. Most especially in the string manipulation
> > areas and date-time handling.
>
> I often wish for:
>
> cast( var | char as blob ) and cast( blob to var | char )
>
> Wouldn't that be handy?
>

Rather than a cast, why not just treat a blob as a character
string?

Jim Starkey