Yeah, don't rely on *.toString() which is often just a convenience for 
debugging purposes (sometimes sadly).

try:
String hexString = new String(nsdata.bytes(), "UTF-8");

On 27/11/2009, at 1:14 AM, Jeff Dunnett wrote:

> Oh yeah...
> 
> <class com.webobjects.foundation.NSData (offset=0, length=24, data=[0]'', 
> [0]'', [-127]'?', [97]'a', [-116]'?', [-75]'?', [0]'', [0]'', [7]'', 
> [-46]'?', [4]'', [0]'', [0]'', [0]'', [1]'', [31]'', [-123]'?', [-28]'?', 
> [113]'q', [84]'T', [10]'
> ', [43]'+', [47]'/', [67]'C')>
> 
> Regards,
> Jeff
> 
> 
> On 26-Nov-09, at 8:39 AM, Mike Schrag wrote:
> 
>> ... and instead it's .....
>> 
>> On Nov 26, 2009, at 8:37 AM, Jeff Dunnett wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Chuck,
>>> 
>>> Ops I knew I forgot to mention something.  It is supposed to be in Hex 
>>> looking like 0x000081618cb5000007d302000000011696cb1cdd430dea9f.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Jeff
>>> 
>>> On 25-Nov-09, at 5:25 PM, Chuck Hill wrote:
>>> 
>>>> What does it look like?  What is it supposed to look like?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Chuck
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Nov 25, 2009, at 1:27 PM, Jeff Dunnett wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>> 
>>>>> All of the Entities in our model use primary keys that have an external 
>>>>> data type of binary with a width of 24.  I have to use some raw SQL to 
>>>>> write some queries...One of those raw SQL queries fetches the primary key 
>>>>> of a row. I then need to use that primary key to form the basis of 
>>>>> another raw SQL query.  I save that primary key into a NSData object.  
>>>>> The problem is I can't seem to convert that object into a format that is 
>>>>> can be used in another query.  When I try to print the information out it 
>>>>> doesn't look right to the eye.  Anyone have anything idea's on how I 
>>>>> might do this?
>>>>> 
>>>>> i.e
>>>>> 
>>>>>       String sqlString = "SELECT contest_id FROM \"cms\".\"ms_contest\" 
>>>>> WHERE contest_event = '" + contest.contestEvent() +"'";
>>>>> 
>>>>>       NSArray result = EOUtilities.rawRowsForSQL(ec, "cms", sqlString);
>>>>> 
>>>>>       NSDictionary dict = (NSDictionary)result.objectAtIndex(0);
>>>>> 
>>>>>       NSData data = (NSData)dict.objectForKey("CONTEST_ID");
>>>>> 
>>>>>       logger.debug("Contest ID: " + data);
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Regardds,
>>>>> Jeff
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