RAWTOHEX

Syntax

Description of the illustration rawtohex.eps

Purpose

RAWTOHEX converts raw to a character value containing its hexadecimal representation.

As a SQL built-in function, RAWTOHEX accepts an argument of any scalar data type other than LONG, LONG RAW, CLOB, NCLOB, BLOB, or BFILE. If the argument is of a data type other than RAW, then this function converts the argument value, which is represented using some number of data bytes, into a RAW value with the same number of data bytes. The data itself is not modified in any way, but the data type is recast to a RAW data type.

This function returns a VARCHAR2 value with the hexadecimal representation of bytes that make up the value of raw. Each byte is represented by two hexadecimal digits.

Note:

RAWTOHEX functions differently when used as a PL/SQL built-in function. Refer to Oracle Database Development Guide for more information.

See Also:

Appendix C in Oracle Database Globalization Support Guide for the collation derivation rules, which define the collation assigned to the character return value of RAWTOHEX

Examples

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

SELECT RAWTOHEX(raw_column) "Graphics"
   FROM graphics;

Graphics
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