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Blob Functions
The blob data type requires certain special functions to cater for the ways in which it will be manipulated. The functions currently available are:
.inblob().subblob()
The first is used to find the first matching blob in another blob. The second is used to extract a blob from a
blob beginning at some offset for a specified length. These two functions are comparable to the string functions
.instr() and .substr. For further information about these two functions
see the "Blob Functions" section of the "Intrinsic Functions" chapter in the "SIMPOL Language Reference".