From: "Braun Brelin" <[log in to unmask]>


> Oops, that's supposed to be a "4", not an 8.  basically, the keys are
usually
> 7 digits long (like 1951423).  I'm unsure if I'm supposed to add in the
"01" or
> not, so, I've tried it both ways, neither of which works...
>
> Braun Brelin

Your saying "4", not 8, above confuses me...  I'm not sure what it refers
to.

From your initial message I understood that the key is 8 bytes long, the
first byte is ascii "0" (hex 30, decimal 48), the second byte is "1" (hex
31, decimal 49), followed by 6 bytes encoding a 12-digit decimal number in
unsigned packed decimal format.

If you're not sure, you can check the data that is currently in the
database.  E.g., in SUPRTOOL you can do a LIST HEX.  I'm not sure if you can
do that in QUIZ, but you can save a record in a file using QUIZ, then do an
FCOPY IN=file;OUT=;HEX to see the bytes.

If I understand correctly, then this code will work:


sub packdec {
    my ($item, $length) = @_;
    $item = ('0' x ($length - length($item))).$item;
    return pack("H$length",$item);
}

my $key = "01" . packdec(1951423, 12);


This will produce an eight byte string, where the bytes written out in hex
are:
30 31 00 00 01 95 14 23

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