Question : String Operations in SQL

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I am using SQL 2000
I have a table called "MyTable" with a column called "hexcode". The data type is nvarchar (in a form of hex string).
The data looks some thing like this: 371D8041

I need a function that would re-arrange the above string so it looks like this: 41801D37
So basically I want to reverse the order of pair of charcters.

I am doing this:
select
  Lo1+Lo2+Lo3+Lo4 as ActualCode
from
(
 select
  Substring(Hexcode,7,2) Lo1, Substring(Hexcode,5,2) Lo2, Substring(Hexcode, 3,2) Lo3, Substring(Hexcode,1,2) Lo4
from
 MyTable
)
as T1

The above query works, but I need to write it as a function. This way I don't have to repeat the code every time.
How would I do this? Thanks

Answer : String Operations in SQL

create function dbo.ReverseHexString(@input varchar(40))
returns varchar(40)
as
  begin
   declare @res varchar(40)
   select @res = Substring(@input,7,2) +Substring(@input,5,2) +Substring(@input, 3,2) + Substring(@input,1,2)
   return (@res)
 end


and use that like this:

select hexcode, dbo.ReverseHexCode(hexcode) ActualCode from Mytable
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