On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 09:56 +0100, Andreas Saeger wrote: > In other words: When the sum or average of the field is completely > pointless it must be some kind of identifier and deserves to be text.
bg: I can see that. Of course my perspective tends to dictate that it doesn't matter which way I treat it, so long as I manage to produce the desired result. Actually, in the specific case of US Zip codes, it seems that a spreadsheet can be made to serve in some fairly simple ways. Provided of course that none of the ones in my list are from the East Coast, some of which begin with zero :-) And none of them are likely to ever be from there. Thanks again, Brewster -- *********************************************************************** Embrace a sharing community of sustainable justice low-carbon diversity *********************************************************************** W. Brewster Gillett [email protected] Portland, OR USA *********************************************************************** Simply because you don't like to hear it, that doesn't make it untrue. *********************************************************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
