<David Blomstrom wrote> --- Joshua Beall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> AFAIK 112,249 is not an integer. It is a string. > If you need to have the > commas, you need to store it as a string. I haven't got to strings yet. The table I'm making is for display purposes, so I want visitors to be able to see 10,212, rather than 10212. I'm also going to make JavaScript sortable columns. So do I need to store it as a string if I want to display columns? Or would I simply use some other function to insert commas for display purposes? </David> David, As several people have tried to point out, the data "112,249" represents a string and not a number. The comma is killing you. How you store a number INTERNALLY can be totally different than how you present it to the user. For instance you could HEX() the number and get back "1B679", it's the same number with a different look. You can format your numbers on output however you like (with or without commas, as a sequence of binary digits, as a date value, ....) but for the import to work your data must not have commas in the number fields. Respectfully, Shawn Green Database Administrator Unimin Corporation - Spruce Pine -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
