Re: UNIX : script help/input

Jared.Still_at_radisys.com wrote:
> Left pad with zeroes, take a substring, feed it to the handy-dandy
> hex/oct/bin/dec converter package - much easier.

Jared, what Oracle edition do you use? I'm asking because you might want to consider not to use 'handy-dandy' hex/oct/bin/dec converter package, but TO_CHAR/TO_NUMBER in case it's >= 8i -- it would work faster.

SELECT TO_NUMBER(SUBSTR('0x0000500000AA', -6), 'FM00000X') dec

      , '0x' || TO_CHAR(170, 'FM00000X') hex    FROM dual
/

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