Paul,
Friday, April 26, 2002, 5:57:56 PM, you wrote:

>>What Mysql function can I use to examine blob in a table. I need to 
>>display part of the blob in hex values. Shouldn't the following sql 
>>command work :
>>select  hex(substring(col1,1,10)) from table tbl1;

PD> HEX() converts numbers, not strings.  There is no function in MySQL
PD> for what you want.

Now the situation is changed. :-) 

If the argument of HEX() is a string, HEX() returns a hexadecimal
string of argument where each character is converted to 2 hexadecimal
digits.




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