>>>How to copy the contents of a blob field in a table into an array of bytes.
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>>VFP doesn't have byte data type. Please clarify.
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>It does *sortof*. I've defined arrays as byte (DIME aTest[100] as BYTE, aTest = 'X') to pass to COM servers and they are recognized as VT_UI1. TYPE() in VFP returns 'N'. I guess it depends on what the array is to be used for.


Sergey & Gary,

Thanks for responding to my posting.

Actually, my purpose has to do with COM. I'm developing a COM server. The client will pass a reference (pointer) to a byte array to the COM sever. The COM server will transfer the data from the blob field into the byte array.

So, how, in my VFP COM server can I transfer the data from the blob into the byte array?

Looks like VFP Dimension statement knows about the Byte data type, by the CAST function does not.

Thanks,
Jim