Hi all.

I have two Informix servers -- a production box and a test box.  Passwords
to our vendor's software are stored encrypted in a char(20) column.  I want
to copy passwords from production to test.  I've written a perl script to
fetch the password from production and I want to put that password into the
same table/column on the test box.  The problem is that the encrypted
passwords have non-ascii characters.

update user_mst set access_code = "blahblah" where id="235112"

This update command gives me this:
DBD::Informix::db do failed: SQL: -202: An illegal character has been found
in the statement. at ./3000create.pl line 27.

How can I copy the contents of one char column to another if the data
contains "illegal characters" ??

Thanks,

Brian McLaughlin
George Fox University
(503) 554-2587


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