Addressed to: Chris Mattmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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** Reply to note from Chris Mattmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 23 May 2001
18:05:27 -0700 (PDT)
>
> Thanks for your help Rick.
>
> The problem I was having was basically as you understood, except for the fact
> that I don't really have access to file at the time that I need to unpack the
> data from it.
>
> The file is stored in terms of Oracle bFile pointers, so basically I have some
> code that does like:
>
> //do query to get bfile pointer
> .......
>
> $bindata = $bfileptr->load();
>
>
> Now I have a string representation of the binary file. At this time is where
> I having the difficulties. I need a way without the use of fseek(since I don't
> have a file, I only have a string representation of it) to select a particular
> subset of the data.
>
> Any advice you have would be greatly appreciated, and thanks for replying to
> my original post.
You should be able to use substr() to get any part of the returned
$bindata you want. Just use the byte position equations from my last
post to determine where in the data you want to return.
I think your dba may be crazy to store that much data that way.
Rick Widmer
Internet Marketing Specialists
http://www.developersdesk.com
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