----- Original Message ----- From: "George Law" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MYSQL General List" <mysql@lists.mysql.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 3:40 PM Subject: forcing leading 0 for numeric fields
Hello All, I have what is probably a simple question. I have a table of phone numbers, broken into npa,nxx,station So, 8001231234 npa =800 nxx=123 station=1234 Some queries pull data from this table in the format: select * from table where concat(npa,nxx,station)=8001231234 That is all good. The problem I ran into today is where the station column is < 1000, ie 8001230123 station =0123 which gets stored as 123 by mysql Is there a quick and easy way to force station to 4 digits when I do the query select * from table where concat(npa,nxx,station)=8001230123 This query does not work, but select * from table where concat(npa,nxx,station)=800123123 does. TIA! -- George If no arithmetic is to be performed, I'd store them as char fields. May not help you much :) -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
