On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 09:44:45AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to be very efficient in pulling some DBI blob data back > into C. I have set up DBI to use bind_col, and this is very nice. But > once the read data is in an SV, I would like to get access to the > actual pointer to the data w/in the SV, and hand this back to C, so > that I don't have to move the data. The blob data is pure binary, not > string data. Which of the many SV routines is the right one to get > access to this pointer?
Probably SvPV is what you're looking for. It gives you a pointer to the string buffer of the SV, and the length of the data in the buffer. Nicholas Clark
