Re: Newbie problem with from database in C

>> characters are fine so far.  I have placed the code I am using below.
>> Would appreciate it if someone could tell me what is wrong or provide me
>> with a reference on how to do this properly.
>
>IIRC, you need to convert from network byte order:
>
>idno = ntohl(*((int32 *) PQgetvalue(result, row, 0)));
>
Thanks it led me in the right direction.
I was getting confused with all of the pointers.  I finally broke it down.
int  * idno;
int  idno2;idno    = ((int32 *)PQgetvalue( result, row, 0));idno2   = ntohl( * idno);

So now that I look at this I don't understand why your statement didn't work. 

Okay redid it with  idno2 = ntohl(*((int32 *) PQgetvalue(result, row, 0)));
and it works.  I was trying to put the int in a pointer for int.

Thanks again,
After googling this a number of different ways I found a number of people who never got a response.

Most of their output was the same as mine before applying ntohl
Output       Translate to
---------    ------------
16777216       1
33554432       2
50331648       3
67108864       4
83886080       5
100663296      6




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