I never considered the dash a digit, but then I forgot a dollar sign on one
of the variable names, but you can probably figure that out.

Warren Vail 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Warren Vail [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 8:17 PM
> To: 'Warren Vail'; 'Keith Spiller'; php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: RE: [PHP] Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes
> 
> Dave brought up something I forgot, what if the "-" is 
> already in the sip code;
> 
> Modify the code as follows;
> 
> If(strlen($zipcode) <= 5) $zipcode = sprintf("%05d",$zipcode); Else {
>      $zipcode = sprintf("%09d",str_replace("-","",$zipcode));
>      $zipcode = substr($zipcode,0,5)."-".substr(zipcode,5);
> }
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Warren Vail [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 8:08 PM
> > To: 'Keith Spiller'; php-general@lists.php.net
> > Subject: RE: [PHP] Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes
> > 
> > I'd try something like;
> > 
> > If(strlen($zipcode) <= 5) $zipcode = 
> sprintf("%05d",$zipcode); Else {
> >     $zipcode = sprintf("%09d",$zipcode);
> >     $zipcode = substr($zipcode,0,5)."-".substr(zipcode,5);
> > }
> > 
> > This isn't real elegant, but it should do the trick.  You 
> may notice 
> > that the 10 character zip code is not 10 digits but rather 
> 5 plus 4, 
> > or 9 digits.
> > 
> > Warren Vail
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Keith Spiller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 7:44 PM
> > > To: php-general@lists.php.net
> > > Subject: [PHP] Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > RE:  Restore Leading Zeros in Zip Codes
> > > 
> > > Does anyone happen to have a script that will restore the leading 
> > > zeros in a mixed data set of 5 digit zip codes and 10 digit zip+4 
> > > codes?  Any suggestions?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Keith
> > > 
> > 
> > 
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