in reply to Re: DBI converting hex values
in thread DBI converting hex values
In this particular case, the data type is a custom type derived from Binary. But my code doesn't know that, it gets queries passed in from outside. My code runs them (managing all the DB connection details) and passes back the results.
As for how I'm seeing the value, I'm using Data::Dumper and print statements. I could convert it back to a string representation of the hex value, but only if I can know which fields got changed in this way. Since the SQL code could be pretty much anything, I'm not sure if this is possible.
I'd like to push this burden off to the calling scripts, since they know what their SQL is. But my intermediate layer previously used another DB module (Sybase::CTLib), which returned the hex values in the way I want. I've got to make my layer behave the same way, or I'll break all the other scripts.
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