Re: [sqlite] Convert data to binary

2011-11-25 Thread Dan Kennedy
On 11/26/2011 05:02 AM, Nico Williams wrote: You can CAST TEXT to BLOB, and you can use x'' for literal BLOBs. You can. The result of which is a blob that corresponds to either the utf-8 or utf-16 (big or little endian) encoding of the text, depending on the encoding used by the database file.

Re: [sqlite] Convert data to binary

2011-11-25 Thread Pavel Ivanov
> I'd like to store any data as binary in my sqlite database, I approached > the problem by trying to hex() the input because the x' ' operator accepts > hex and outputs binary, for example: You should convert you binary data into hex in your programming language outside SQLite if you want to conc

Re: [sqlite] Convert data to binary

2011-11-25 Thread Nico Williams
You can CAST TEXT to BLOB, and you can use x'' for literal BLOBs. ___ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users

Re: [sqlite] Convert data to binary

2011-11-25 Thread Petite Abeille
On Nov 25, 2011, at 10:23 PM, Carl Desautels wrote: > x'hex("hello world")' sqlite> select x'68656C6C6F20776F726C64'; hello world x denotes a blob literal: "BLOB literals are string literals containing hexadecimal data and preceded by a single "x" or "X" character." http://www.sqlite.org/lan

[sqlite] Convert data to binary

2011-11-25 Thread Carl Desautels
I'd like to store any data as binary in my sqlite database, I approached the problem by trying to hex() the input because the x' ' operator accepts hex and outputs binary, for example: x'hex("hello world")' but that syntax doesn't work, is there any way to make storing any data as its binary valu