RE: Leading Zeroes in PF

Saving 2 bytes for a 5 digit zip or 4 bytes for a 9 digit zip? That's
not enough to care about...

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: Leading Zeroes in PF
> From: "Douglas W. Palme" <dpalme@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, February 02, 2006 12:29 pm
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> That is exactly why I wanted to use it, cut down the amount of disk space 
> needed by using a packed field....I guesss I could have done a better job 
> explaining that.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 10:18:29 -0700, michael wrote
> > Don't work with Canada, eh?
> > 
> > What do you mean about being possible with the PF? PF's can have packed
> > fields, and if you want to treat the zip code as numeric, it can be
> > packed.
> > 
> > > -------- Original Message --------
> > > Subject: Leading Zeroes in PF
> > > From: "Douglas W. Palme" <dpalme@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date: Thu, February 02, 2006 12:07 pm
> > > To: "Mid Range List" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > 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? 
> > > 
> > > If you bought it, it was hauled by a truck - somewhere, sometime.
> > > 
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> If you bought it, it was hauled by a truck - somewhere, sometime.
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