Thanks for all your suggestions Tom. The mixed 5 digit zip code and 10
digit zip+4 code data set are in a varchar(20) field.
I don't recall if the data was identical in both the CSV and Excel files,
but I do remember I had the same problem. It's been many months since I
imported the original data into MySQL and I still need to repair the damage
zip codes before we attempt another export to Excel.
I believe your final suggestion is my necessary route. Thanks again for
your help Tom.
Keith
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Keith Spiller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <mysql@lists.mysql.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 8:28 PM
Subject: RE: Zip Codes with Leading Zeros
Keith (I'm not very familiar with phpMyAdmin): what is the underlying
datatype of your zip code field?
On the command line, if I use:
mysql> select * into outfile '/tmp/file.txt' fields terminated by ','
optionally enclosed by '"' lines terminated by '\n' from tmp;
(note that the default output, if not specified is tab-separated)
...I get csv style output in the output file for columns of type
varchar(100), for example, with records containing leading zeros.
Are the outputs identical in CSV and Excel (not sure whether Excel is not
showing the leading zeroes as part of the column formatting defaults).
Of course, you could write a post-processing script that adds the leading
zeros to records not long enough.
..Tom
-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Spiller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thu 21-Aug-08 22:11
To: mysql@lists.mysql.com
Subject: Zip Codes with Leading Zeros
Hi,
RE: Zip Codes with Leading Zeros
We need to export a MySQL table with a zip code field to Excel. We
currently use PhpMyAdmin to export to CSV or Excel files. We have had
problems with zip codes with leading zeros. The leading zeros are removed
so that we are left with incomplete codes. Can you help us learn the
correct procedure for dealing with, exporting and importing zip codes?
Thank you very much for all your help.
Keith
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