--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "martinthrelly"
<martinthrelly@y...> wrote:

>
> hi there. i have found a UDF in the FreeUDFLib.dll called
> F_BLOBASPCHAR. this udf allows me to convert a blob to a string. i
> notice that this UDF has a return type of CSTRING(1024).
>
> i need to manipulate this string within a stored procedure. but in
> order to do this i guess i must first assign the returned UDF value to
> a local variable.
>
> but i cant go like this because cstring is not a recognised type o
> dont think:
> declare variable mystring cstring(1024);
> mystring = F_BLOBASPCHAR(myblob);
>
> also i cant cast the blob as a firebird varchar data type because it
> might be too big for that.

try varchar(1024)

Adam