Hi Ric,

>Good morning Sergey
>
>Am I to assume:
>
>1) the line '.... TO LEN(lcStr)' should read '....TO LEN(entity_id)'? otherwise, where and what do I define lcStr as?

Yes.

>
>2) After converting to HEX, I then convert to ASCII?
>

I don't know because you didn't say in what format data is stored. Is it integer, float number or something else?

>Cheers,
>
>R
>>Hi Ric,
>>
>>To convert binary data to something meaningfull you've to know what is stored there and in what format. To convert it to hexadecimal string.

lcHex = ""
>>FOR i=1 TO LEN(lcStr)
>>  lcHex = lcHex + RIGHT(TRANSFORM(ASC(SUBSTR(entity_id, i,1)), "@0"),2)
>>ENDFOR
>>? lcHex
>>

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