NAME

       odbx_field_value - Returns the data stored in a field

SYNOPSIS

       #include <opendbx/api.h>

       const char* odbx_field_value (odbx_result_t* result, unsigned long pos);

DESCRIPTION

       odbx_field_value()  returns  a  pointer to the field data specified by the column index pos. The field is
       part of the current row which was retrieved by the latest call to odbx_row_fetch().

       All values except binary objects are handed back as strings terminated by the zero character.  This  does
       also  apply  to  numeric  values, dates, etc. They have to be converted to their binary machine dependent
       representation before arithmetic operations can be done. If a value is undefined, i.e. "NULL" is attached
       to the field in the database, an equivalent NULL pointer is returned.

       The result parameter required by this function must be a valid result set returned by  odbx_result()  and
       must not has been feed to odbx_result_finish() before.

       Valid column indices for the requested column provided via pos start with zero and end with the value re‐
       turned by odbx_column_count() minus one.

RETURN VALUE

       The function provides the address pointing to the beginning of the field value where the string or binary
       object is stored in memory to the caller. It returns a NULL pointer if the field is a "NULL" value.

ERRORS

       This  function  will also return zero if the result parameter is invalid or if the value of pos is out of
       range.

SEE ALSO

       odbx_column_type(), odbx_field_length(), odbx_result()

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