Keith Spiller schrieb:
> Hi Johnny,
>
> Yeah. Sadly I missed the fact that the zip codes were hacked in our original Works
> to MySQL conversion until long after I had imported the data into our current MySQL table.
> Now we have to fix the numbers in our MySQL table and guarantee that we can export them
> out to Excel for the printer. I'm working on either finding or producing a script that
> will repair the 12,000 rows of mixed zip (5 digit) and zip+4 data.
>
> I appreciate your taking the time to help us Johnny.
>
so you core problem is that you zip code is a number (or was in between) like 1234 and you
would like to see 01234.
unload your data and reformat using a simple shell script with a printf core like this
one:
printf "%09d\n" 1234
this should be a matter of minutes to rewrite.
re,
wh
