in reply to formatting zipcodes

See (s)printf, which can be coerced into right-padding with zeros (instead of spaces) if the string is shorter than a desired length...

my $zip = sprintf "%05d", 9876;

    --k.


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Re: Re: formatting zipcodes
by mumphis (Initiate) on Apr 14, 2002 at 22:30 UTC
    perfect, thanks(all) for the quick reply
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      If you are writing this code for international use remember that not all postal codes are five digits. The post codes in Australia, for example, are 4 digits long.
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        ...and in Canada, it's letter-number-letter number-letter-number.
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        Not wanting to re-state the obvious I will make this short. I have the joy of working with both US and Canadian Addresses (maybe Mexico soon) and the best solution is to just format them as strings as stated below (and above i believe) with double quotes. This gets around all the stupid thinks like spaces, letters and US postal zip codes (5-4 format).
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