KDB Command to Set Binary Values

[sanssecours]

Proposal

Sometimes it would be nice to have a tool that stores binary data in the key data base. We could either integrate this functionality directly into kdb set or create a new tool with the name kdb setbinary, kdb setbin or a similar name. Since binary data can also contain NULL bytes I think we should probably support escape sequences to save arbitrary data. For example the command

kdb setbin user/test/binary/key '\x48\x69\x00'

or the equivalent command

kdb setbin user/test/binary/key 'Hi\x00'

could save the C ASCII string Hi(the numbers 72, 105, and 0) in the key user/test/binary/key.

[markus2330]

Thank you, good proposal! I would prefer the longer name set-binary (see #265) or directly integrate it into kdb set.

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