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Bob go ahead... be a heretic  Comment on  In this particular
case, the data type is a custom type derived from Binary. But my
code doesn't know that, it gets queries passed in from outside.
My code runs them (managing all the DB connection details) and
passes back the results.  As for how I'm seeing the value, I'm
using Data::Dumper and print statements. I could convert it back
to a string representation of the hex value, but only if I can
know which fields got changed in this way. Since the SQL code
could be pretty much anything, I'm not sure if this is possible.
I'd like to push this burden off to the calling scripts, since
they know what their SQL is. But my intermediate layer
previously used another DB module (Sybase::CTLib), which
returned the hex values in the way I want. I've got to make my
layer behave the same way, or I'll break all the other scripts.
A fair fight is a sign of poor planning.  In reply to Re^2: DBI
converting hex values