Re: just curious - Number of Parms(numeric zip codes and other crimes against nature)

What about using variable length character fields? Set the allocated length
to the size used by the majority.

Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
909 425-0194 voice
909 425-0196 fax


From: Rob Berendt <rob@dekko.com>
> Of course in the LIN segment, Element 234 would be the item number.
> That is defined as:
> Type=AN Min=1 Max=48
> Identifying number for a product or service.
>
> And who wants to code 48 character item numbers in all their files?
> No one.  So what do we do when we have a customer who does?  We create
> a customer/part cross reference.


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