Re: Leading Zeroes in PF

I understand the issue, I guess I was thinking that chaining to a numeric 
field would be faster than alpha but maybe not, maybe my windows thinking is 
creeping in to iSeries....


On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 11:11:24 -0600, David Gibbs wrote
> Douglas W. Palme wrote:
> > I have been working with some zipcode files and we would prefer to treat 
the 
> > field (zipcode) as a packed field, but I need to allow for leading 
> > zeroes...is that possible with the PF?
> 
> Leading zeros are meaningless for a numeric field.  The only way to get
> leading zeros on a have them added (either programatically or
> automatically) by the application that is outputting the data.
> 
> If you change your field to alpha and you can have leading zeros (if 
> the user, or your program, puts them in).  That will also make your 
> application more flexible so that it can handle areas with non-
> numeric postal codes (UK, Canada, etc).
> 
> david
> 
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