Jeff Johnson wrote:
Greetings: I have a text box who's control source is a social security
number stored as a number. Obviously I have done this for years.
Yesterday it was brought to my attention that the leading zero messed up
the formatting:
012566666 produces 125-66-666 instead of 012-56-6666. I am using an
input mask of 999-99-9999.
What do I need to do to fix this.
If you're not going to do math with it, it shouldn't be stored as a
number. Change the field to a char(9), convert the numbers to char
strings (tranform(), str(), whatever you want), input with format of @R
and input mask of 999-99-9999.
If you're really, really sure that the mangled numbers are always
missing one or more zeros, then once you're changed the field to char,
you can replace all ssn with padl(alltrim(ssn)),9,'0')
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