Question

I have a .patt (pattern) file which I want to store in Sqlite Database and retrieve it later in order to match it with another pattern.

contents of pattern file(*.patt)

 178 176 175 176 173 172 173 173 169 167 167 169 169 164 166 167
 178 176 176 174 174 173 172 174 171 169 168 171 167 168 166 168
 175 171 171 165 166 164 163 161 160 162 157 160 165 168 167 168
 172 172 145 102 102  99 103  99  96  96  96 106 159 170 168 167
 175 172 144  96  93  90  89  88  86  87  86 101 157 167 166 168

and so on….

I don’t know to what extent Sqlite support this.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

There is a blob data-type for such operations.
However, It would be bad habit to store & retrieve a file in Sqlite. It may effect in performance of application for operation reading/writing file data into sqlite. You should store it directly as file and store its path inside the sqlite database. This way it will be easy to retrieve.