Fred,

Any progress ? Have you already succeeded with returning VARCHARS from UDF ?

Ivan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred P." <fpsys2002@...>
Subject: [firebird-support] Re: Setting VARCHAR length in a FB UDF


> --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr@u...> wrote:
> > IMHO, it's much easier to use CSTRING type for the UDF arguments instead of
> > VARCHAR. Just use C-style (zero-terminated) strings and forget about all
> > your issues.
> >
> >
> > Dmitry
>
> Sorry, in my case, I can't use C strings. I have an application that
> I'm trying to port from Oracle to FB. Most tables have at least a few
> columns of data type "RAW". This is roughly the same as a VARCHAR but
> contains binary data. These columns are typlically small (6 bytes
> fixed length) but can get up to 128 bytes.
>
> Anyway, I'm trying to write UDFs that will emulate Oracle's hextoraw()
> and rawtohex() builtin functions used to store and retrieve binary
> values from RAW columns. The return value from my hextoraw is a
> VARCHAR of CHARACTER SET OCTETS and can contain zeros as valid data.
> So, a C string will not do the job.