Re: Suggested size for Postal code, and changing the field attributes with cpyf

[Glenn Ericson <glenn-ericson@xxxxxxx>]

I  guess you  could but  and  edit mask would be  a good time 
to  attach as not all will go be going the  first 5 in 
the  5+4+3  current structure of Zip  codes in USA.
Rule  might be  if  +4 not there blank out  +4  and +3
If  + 3  missing blank out  that only

At 05:03 PM 6/22/2008, Booth Martin wrote:
> Suggested size for Postal code, and changing the field attributes with cpyf.
>
> We keep postal codes in a variety of formats including  alpha-5, numeric
> 5, numeric 5 + numeric 4, alpha 9.
>
> Two questions:
> 1 - What is a generally accepted size * description today?  (I recently
> received mail from the US Government with a zip code of 12345-0123000)
> 2 - Is it possible, with CPYF, to map those various formats to one
> common new format?
>
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