[sqlite] trying to store a file as a blob. caught on syntax...

2014-12-03 Thread Jonathan Leslie
I'm on a window 7 x64 machine, at a cmd.exe prompt.   This is what I tried:  C:\jonesqlite3 test2.db3SQLite version 3.8.5 2014-06-04 14:06:34Enter .help for usage hints.sqlite CREATE TABLE Files (name TEXT PRIMARY KEY,contents BLOB);sqlite INSERT INTO Files (name,contents) VALUES

Re: [sqlite] trying to store a file as a blob. caught on syntax...

2014-12-03 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Jonathan Leslie wrote: I'm at a cmd.exe prompt. sqlite INSERT INTO Files (name,contents) VALUES ('tsql.lis',X$(od -A n -t x1 tsql.lis|tr -d '\r\n\t ')); Error: near $(od -A n -t x1 tsql.lis|tr -d '\r\n\t '): syntax error I'm trying to store the file tsql.lis as a blob, and od.exe and

Re: [sqlite] trying to store a file as a blob. caught on syntax...

2014-12-03 Thread Jonathan Leslie
From: Clemens Ladisch clem...@ladisch.de To: sqlite-users@sqlite.org Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2014 1:00 PM Subject: Re: [sqlite] trying to store a file as a blob. caught on syntax... Jonathan Leslie wrote: I'm at a cmd.exe prompt. sqlite INSERT

Re: [sqlite] trying to store a file as a blob. caught on syntax...

2014-12-03 Thread Keith Medcalf
select writefile(name, contents) from files where name='filename.ext'; --- Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. Practice is when everything works but no one knows why. Sometimes theory and practice are combined: nothing works and no one knows why. -Original

Re: [sqlite] trying to store a file as a blob. caught on syntax...

2014-12-03 Thread Jonathan Leslie
no such function writefile. do I have to update my sqlite3 C:\jon\svn\SCEPTRE\trunk\SCEPTRE\Scenario Management\ahk_sceptresqlite3 test2.db3 SQLite version 3.8.5 2014-06-04 14:06:34 Enter .help for usage hints. sqlite select writefile(name,contents) from files where

Re: [sqlite] trying to store a file as a blob. caught on syntax...

2014-12-03 Thread Jonathan Leslie
sqlite .version SQLite 3.8.5 2014-06-04 14:06:34 b1ed4f2a34ba66c29b130f8d13e9092758019212 sqlite - Original Message - From: Jonathan Leslie j...@jonathanleslie.com To: General Discussion of SQLite Database sqlite-users@sqlite.org Cc: Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2014 8:36 PM

Re: [sqlite] trying to store a file as a blob. caught on syntax...

2014-12-03 Thread Richard Hipp
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 8:36 PM, Jonathan Leslie j...@jonathanleslie.com wrote: no such function writefile. do I have to update my sqlite3 The writefile() function is built into recent sqlite3.exe command-line shells. Very recent once, at least. If you are not using a recent

Re: [sqlite] trying to store a file as a blob. caught on syntax...

2014-12-03 Thread Jonathan Leslie
ahperfect I'm done. Thank you all for all your help. the latest build of sqlite3 has the readfile and writefile functions in it, and they seem to be working just fine. here is the cmd.exe session showing what I did. I was then able to open the image 'i3.png' and it is exactly the