Error- ORA-22835: Buffer too small for CLOB to CHAR or BLOB to RAW conversion

Question

I am attempting to read a blob message and display it as a variable in one of my procedures, but am getting the error below:

Error - ORA-22835: Buffe

Answer 1

I got this worked by using the option described in

http://www.dba-oracle.com/t_convert_blob_varchar_datatype.htm

Answer 2

Try to use DBMS_LOB.GETLENGTH(), instead of trimming the string