Can anyone tell me what data type I can use to store an numbers of this sort "087699" I want it to store the FIRST ZERO. If I use INT or double it removes the first zero
achiman
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Junior Poster in Training
achiman
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Junior Poster in Training
its solved
drjohn
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Posting Pro in Training
looks like a phone number.
so it's NOT a number, it's a string.
Any other data-type is wrong.
WebspoonUK
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Seasoned Developer
Quick anwser - you can't
You have to store any number starting with a '0' as a string as the datatype will remove it if you store it as a numerical data type.
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