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Re: Any concerns with storing ASCII - NUL in Image?
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Steve Dirickson <[log in to unmask]>
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Steve Dirickson <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 18 Jan 2002 01:09:00 -0800
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> Does anyone know of any undesirable side effects of storing
> the acsii(0)
> NUL in a field in an Image Dataset?  And for the ?inevitable?
future,
> how about any other DB's for that matter?
>
> I'm looking to use it or another ascii character as a logical
> separator
> in free form text entry, when no space occurs in the text,
> such as in a URL string.

Alternatively, use an "escape" character to differentiate between
"regular data" and "special character" usage of something convenient.
Probably a bit more readable when looking at the data with QUERY, raw
binary displays, etc.

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