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  3. February 2006

Re: Leading Zeroes in PF

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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