import not exacting?

[Scott Walker]

Mark,

I've seen Excel drop leading "0" when an export is produced.  I don't know
where you are importing the data from but confirm that the leading zero is
actually in the data you are importing from.

Regards,

Scott

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> I'm using import in some code, and noticed that I was ending up with 4-
> digit zipcodes after the import.  Thing is, they're ones which start as a
> zero.
> 
> If I were using a cast variable for intake, I'd expect this.  However,
> I'm using a wholly uncast variable.  Shouldn't it import -literally- into
> an uncast variable?
> 
> 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.
> 
> mark->
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