Re: [Koha-devel] Dewey character

[Stephen Hedges]

Well, before we get too carried away with trying to make the Dewey number
a number, let's ask ourselves if there is really any good reason to keep
it a number!  It's not used in any sort of calculation, for example.

Stephen

MJ Ray said:
> On 2004-08-12 20:25:11 +0100 Chris Cormack <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> The problem is that mysql helpfully trims leading 0's. Which are
>> perfectly
>> valid in Dewey. So we would have to write code to add 0's to the
>> front if we
>> did that.
>
> Stupid mysql. Is sprintf("%06.2f\n",$dewey) simple enough, or is it a
> problem with how many places Dewey is displayed? (Inspired by man
> perlfaq4)
>
> Maybe making it character would help LC support, though. Maybe even
> the same search range theory could work with both, but I forget the
> specifics of SQL character fields and range operators.
>
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