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RAWTOHEX

Syntax

Description of the illustration rawtohex.gif

Purpose

RAWTOHEX converts raw to a character value containing its hexadecimal equivalent. The raw argument must be RAW datatype.

You can specify a BLOB argument for this function if it is called from within a PL/SQL block.

Examples

The following hypothetical example returns the hexadecimal equivalent of a RAW column value:

SELECT RAWTOHEX(raw_column) "Graphics"
   FROM graphics;

Graphics
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7D  

See Also:

"RAW and LONG RAW Datatypes" and HEXTORAW