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From: u-sgreen%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Scott Greenman)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: How to find length of text column in SYBASE
Message-ID: <1990Dec19.165800.15675@hellgate.utah.edu>
Date: 19 Dec 90 23:58:00 GMT
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
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I am programming with sybase using the DBLIB.  How do you determine the
length of the text in a TEXT column?  I need to feed the contents of a
text column into a stream.  I was going to do it 255 bytes at a time
using the READTEXT command with an offset, but I don't know how to determine
when I've reached the end of the text (Besides waiting for the error message.)
Is there an easy way?

Scott Greenman
Univ of Utah