Re: phone number list

On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 16:35, Bryan Irvine wrote:
> I have a db that contains phone numbers
>
> The data that get inserted looks like this
>
> 425 555 1212
>
> I have a script that inserts that into the DB, the problem is that
> sometimes the suffix might start with a 0 and is getting truncated.
>
> so
>
> 425 555 0212
>
> ends up being
>
> 425 555  212.  How can I fix this?

It sounds as though you are storing the numbers in numeric fields, in
which case store them in text fields instead.

But you need to give much better information if you seriously want
assistance.  That is, you need to show us the table structure and the
commands by which you insert a row in that table.

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