import not exacting?

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On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 02:14:37PM -0400, Kenneth Brody thus spoke:
> 
> Can you show the actual processing?  A simple import ascii will not
> strip any leading zeros, unless you put the result into a numeric
> field.

Unfortunately, no.  NDA.

> >I'm getting very lucky that lookups seem to match on key field, even with
> >this screwy non-literal lead-zero translation.  It's always worked, so it's
> >gone unnoticed until now.  But technically it should always be five digits,
> >even uncast.
> 
> Can you double-check that the field is not a numeric field?  That
> would explain both scenarios.

It's definitely not cast to anything.  "declare LAZip"  That's it.  What
was -more- interesting was when I tried to put in a single looping line of
logic to prepend zeroes on with concatenation if the length was < 5, it
refused to trigger.  Bizarre.

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