RE: LONG to char

From: Adam Turner <ATurner_at_concreteinc.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 09:55:25 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.002B8C29.20010220085125@fatcity.com>

I am doing this now. In a very lame and inneffecient way. I wrote a cursor and am taking my LOB into a really long VARCHAR2(10000) or whatever variable then substringing it out into several smaller VARCHAR2(4000) fields. It isn't pretty, but it is working without errors ....

adam

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Anybody have any Idee how to conevrt a LONG datatype to char/varchar

Regards
JL
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