Technical Notes

Leading Zeros in PalmAddress Import

There have been a number of cases of apparently stripped-off leading zeros (for example, in zipcodes) after importing numbers into PalmAddress. PalmConnect is not the culprit!

In many databases, fields designated as numerical will accept and display a number with a leading zero. When exported or extracted, however, the zero is stripped off. Hence, it is gone before the import to PalmAddress occurs, but, since the export file is rarely viewed, this goes unnoticed.

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