RE: [pilot-db-list] leading 0

[KANE P. (CA) <Pet...@er...>]

To me this is a very strange thread indeed.

An integer is an integer. no matter how many leading zeros it is entered
with, it should be stored as an integer, and formatted and displayed in a
consistent format for integers.

A more useful discussion would be about whether db should have user-defined
formatting of integers, or other number types in the future (or strings for
that matter).


-----Original Message-----
From: Chalain Marc [mailto:mar...@vo...]
Sent: Wednesday, 26 September 2001 2:23
To: pilot-db list pilot-db
Subject: [pilot-db-list] leading 0


I will never keep the leading 0. An integer is a value not a phone number or
other thing like that. How do you want to do an operation with two phone
numbers???????
Ok, for an explanation about the meaning of String Type in the
documentation, it's necessary. (Mike can you just add that in your first
documentation, please?)
For the type of the entry (decimal, hexadecimal, octal) i think it's better
to keep it, perhaps i can change the mode to understand the type. And i
don't see a problem to use it. For the number display is another deal, i
don't want to add a lot of informations in the database, if you have an
idea, i listen you.
Salut,
Marc.
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