On 09 Jul 2001 13:00:40 -0400, Derrick Jamison wrote:
> I am working on a script to move some data between databases and ran into a
> problem. Basically I need to convert a field from big-endian to
> little-endian before I move the data. I have been doing some digging trying
> to see if there is a function available for this, but I haven't found a
> clear, definitive answer. Can anyone help me with this?
>
> Thanks,
> Derrick
> **********************************************
> "Never trust machinery more complicated than a knife and fork." -- Jubal
> Harshaw in Stranger in a Strange Land
>
>
>
The pack and unpack functions can do conversions for you, but remebember
endianness only matters for binary data. So unless you are
creating/reading binary files (which most export/import utilities don't
use for this very reason) you don't care what system the target database
uses for storage.
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