Another approach to consider is using strings. E.g. The function assembles the
underlying query as a string and returns the results of executing the string.
Passing the groups in a string may be straightforward in your application, or
not.
There was a thread in the novice forum last year
n any of this so long as you're using a
client encoding that preserves the lower 128 characters, ie basically
anything except shift-jis.
Now, if your 'object' is actually a string in a single known text
encoding, not just a sequence of bytes, then another approach is
possible. First,
