Hi Keith,
I don't know how to fix it in MySQL, but if you import them into
Excel, select the zip code field, go under format rows under the
"Special" option is Zip Code. If you use that it will add a leading
zero to any field that does NOT have at least 5 characters.
Also.. If you have addresses to go with the zip codes, I work at a
presorted mailing company and we could run your list through our
software which would check, and verify the address, as well as the zip
code. It's a very modest charge and we usually have a quick turn
around. E-mail me off list if you are interested.
Thanks!
On Aug 21, 2008, at 11:07 PM, Keith Spiller wrote:
Thanks for all your suggestions Tom. The mixed 5 digit zip code and
10 digit zip+4 code data set are in a varchar(20) field.
I don't recall if the data was identical in both the CSV and Excel
files, but I do remember I had the same problem. It's been many
months since I imported the original data into MySQL and I still
need to repair the damage zip codes before we attempt another export
to Excel.
I believe your final suggestion is my necessary route. Thanks again
for your help Tom.
Keith
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: "Keith Spiller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <mysql@lists.mysql.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 8:28 PM
Subject: RE: Zip Codes with Leading Zeros
Keith (I'm not very familiar with phpMyAdmin): what is the
underlying datatype of your zip code field?
On the command line, if I use:
mysql> select * into outfile '/tmp/file.txt' fields terminated by
',' optionally enclosed by '"' lines terminated by '\n' from tmp;
(note that the default output, if not specified is tab-separated)
...I get csv style output in the output file for columns of type
varchar(100), for example, with records containing leading zeros.
Are the outputs identical in CSV and Excel (not sure whether Excel
is not showing the leading zeroes as part of the column formatting
defaults).
Of course, you could write a post-processing script that adds the
leading zeros to records not long enough.
..Tom
-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Spiller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thu 21-Aug-08 22:11
To: mysql@lists.mysql.com
Subject: Zip Codes with Leading Zeros
Hi,
RE: Zip Codes with Leading Zeros
We need to export a MySQL table with a zip code field to Excel. We
currently use PhpMyAdmin to export to CSV or Excel files. We have
had problems with zip codes with leading zeros. The leading zeros
are removed so that we are left with incomplete codes. Can you
help us learn the correct procedure for dealing with, exporting and
importing zip codes?
Thank you very much for all your help.
Keith
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