RE: Leading Zeroes in PF

["Douglas W. Palme" <dpalme@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well considering we are talking about over 700 million records here, I'd say 
2 bytes adds up :)



On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 10:49:12 -0700, michael wrote
> Saving 2 bytes for a 5 digit zip or 4 bytes for a 9 digit zip? That's
> not enough to care about...
> 
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: RE: Leading Zeroes in PF
> > From: "Douglas W. Palme" <dpalme@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Thu, February 02, 2006 12:29 pm
> > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > That is exactly why I wanted to use it, cut down the amount of disk 
space 
> > needed by using a packed field....I guesss I could have done a better 
job 
> > explaining that.
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 10:18:29 -0700, michael wrote
> > > Don't work with Canada, eh?
> > > 
> > > What do you mean about being possible with the PF? PF's can have packed
> > > fields, and if you want to treat the zip code as numeric, it can be
> > > packed.
> > > 
> > > > -------- Original Message --------
> > > > Subject: Leading Zeroes in PF
> > > > From: "Douglas W. Palme" <dpalme@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Date: Thu, February 02, 2006 12:07 pm
> > > > To: "Mid Range List" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > 
> > > > I have been working with some zipcode files and we would prefer to 
treat 
> > the 
> > > > field (zipcode) as a packed field, but I need to allow for leading 
> > > > zeroes...is that possible with the PF? 
> > > > 
> > > > If you bought it, it was hauled by a truck - somewhere, sometime.
> > > > 
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If you bought it, it was hauled by a truck - somewhere, sometime.