RE: Leading Zeroes in PF

We are only dealing with US zipcodes here, and only the 48 contigious states.


On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 12:52:18 -0500, Dwight Hogancamp wrote
> Mike,
> 
> A lot of countries other than USA have a mixture of Numbers  & 
> letters in their postal codes.
> 
> As far as I know they are all 10 char or less.
> 
> Dwight
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Mike Wills
> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 12:17 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: Leading Zeroes in PF
> 
> I was wondering why many packages I see uses alpha 10 for the zip code....
> 
> On 2/2/06, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > 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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