Re: [pilot-db-list] leading zero's

[Larry W. V. <lv...@ca...>]

From: Oliver Goetz <oli...@we...>

> I have to disagree! 

Certainly your privledge.

> If you want to store a sequence of numbers or characters exactly
> as you enter it, then use a string.

It doesn't seem obvious to me that non-technical users will make
the assumption that phone numbers, social security numbers, passwords,
etc. that are numeric should be stored in something called 'string'
if they are going to need to keep leading zeros.

Seems to me to be much more PalmOS friendly to keep whatever the
user types just the way they type it.
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