>>>>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.
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>Sergey & Gary,
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>Thanks for responding to my posting.
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>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.
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>So, how, in my VFP COM server can I transfer the data from the blob into the byte array?
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>Looks like VFP Dimension statement knows about the Byte data type, by the CAST function does not.
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>Thanks,
>Jim


Does something like the following work?

DIME MyPassedArray[LEN(MyBlob)]

FOR nInc = 1 TO LEN(MyBlob)
MyPassedArray[nInc]=SUBSTR(MyBlob,nInc,1)
ENDFOR