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Oracle® Database SQL Language Reference
11g Release 1 (11.1)

Part Number B28286-01
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RAWTONHEX

Syntax

Description of rawtonhex.gif follows
Description of the illustration rawtonhex.gif

Purpose

RAWTONHEX converts raw to a character value containing its hexadecimal representation. RAWTONHEX (raw) is equivalent to TO_NCHAR(RAWTOHEX(raw)). The value returned is always in the national character set.

Examples

The following hypothetical example returns the hexadecimal equivalent of a RAW column value:

SELECT RAWTONHEX(raw_column),
   DUMP ( RAWTONHEX (raw_column) ) "DUMP" 
   FROM graphics; 

RAWTONHEX(RA)           DUMP 
----------------------- ------------------------------ 
7D                      Typ=1 Len=4: 0,55,0,68