You can use the additional specification HEX to describe an
external data type as a hexadecimal value.This enables you to load or unload all data types in hexadecimal form. Every byte of data in the result is then represented by two hexadecimal numbers. Every value in the
data stream then occupies twice as much space as the value of the same data type without the specification as a HEX value.FASTLOAD TABLE customer
cno 01-03 CHAR HEX
name 04-12 CHAR HEX
zip 13-17 INTEGER HEX
place 18-29 CHAR HEX
INFILE 'customer.data' FORMATTED
DATALOAD TABLE article IF POS 40-47 INTEGER HEX > '0'
ano 01-08
descr 09-39 NULL IF POS 09-11 = ' '
stock 40-47 INTEGER HEX
min_ord 47-48 INTEGER
price 48-55 DECIMAL (2)
weight 56-59 REAL
INFILE 'article.data' FORMATTED