I need a "TryStrToOct" which doesn't seem to exist.Write it!
Any suggestions?
Special Character Sets
● NONE: Plain octets, no character set applied. With
this character set setting, Firebird is unable to
perform conversion operations like UPPER() correctly
on anything other than the standard 26 latin letters.
● OCTETS: Same as NONE. Cannot be used as client
connection character set. Space character is #x00
OCTET_LENGTH: length of a string in bytes
The Account ID is a GUID, not a number stored as a string. I need to ensure the customer didn't just make up a GUID like, GUID looking string of characters, that is not actually convertable to a GUID. A real GUID is convertible to OCTET form.
I always thought an OCTET was always 8 bits (0-255), Nibble always 4 bits. a Byte does not have to be 8 bits its hardware/architecture dependent.