Re: A task for Binary decode?

2003-08-14 Thread Dar Scott
On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 03:22 PM, jbv wrote: At first glance, the data looks like octal (base 8), and therefore ... But I'm somewhat puzzled by things like Exif or MM in the code... It may be that the binary blob was forced to ASCII printable to be saved in the database. Those bytes that

A task for Binary decode?

2003-08-14 Thread Rodney Tamblyn
Hi everyone, I need to convert some data received from a postgreSQL database back into recognizable binary data. The data was written there by a JDBC/Java application, and it appears that it stores the binary data in octets - but this is new territory for me so I am hoping someone more kn

Re: A task for Binary decode?

2003-08-14 Thread jbv
Rodney, At first glance, the data looks like octal (base 8), and therefore I'd be tempted to use baseconvert to convert it to base 10... For instance : put baseconvert(377, 8, 10) --> 255 But I'm somewhat puzzled by things like Exif or MM in the code... JB > Hi everyone, > > I need to