Re: Using Logicals? -- MIDRANGE-L

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> I am curious how others deal with zip codes including foreign postal
> codes.  An alpha field, 10 long is beginning to look attractive to me but
> I really would like to hear others comment.

10-character alpha field for the code, plus a 2-character country code.
We just let the significant characters run together in the postal code field,
and use the country code determine how to format and space those characters.

We haven't gotten around to forcing the city field to comply with the postal
code yet... <grin>


Peter H. Coffin
phcoffin@us.ibm.com
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