RE: [pilot-db-list] leading 0

[Carson W. <car...@fi...>]

Marc is correct in his feeling on this. 
For example open any spreadsheet and enter an integer with a leading 0 and see what happens to the 0.

Carson

--- "KANE Peter (CA)" <Pet...@er...>
> wrote:
>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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Carson R. Wilcox
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