[comp.databases] How to find length of text column in SYBASE

u-sgreen%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Scott Greenman) (12/20/90)

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