Re: Split hex half-bytes to character

[Peter Dow <petercdow@xxxxxxxxx>]

It sounds like the SQL HEX() function would do what you want.

I'm assuming the "16-byte hex value" is a character field, defined as 
CHAR(16) with maybe FOR BIT DATA.

If that's true, then HEX(myField) should do what you want.

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On 7/8/2024 5:09 PM, Dan Bale wrote:
> I'm positive I'm using the wrong terminology in trying to explain what I am trying to do, and that is likely the reason why google was not my friend.
>
> I'm using SQL to calculate an MD5 checksum, and it returns a 16-byte hex value.  I would like to convert that into a 32-byte character value that "splits" the hex half-bytes to characters.  E.g.:
>
> 5B6EDD5760C6B201
> 04FCEF2EAD7F6D19
>
> into
>
> 50B46FECDEDF527E6A0DC76FB62D0119
>
>
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