>>In the present case, wouldn't it be simpler to do a padl(...) on whatever the user types, before doing the comparison?
>
>I dont' think so. There's no way to determine how many zero's to pad with. BOTH the following values should yield TRUE
>0024567890
>0000000290
I may have misunderstood the problem statement, but I thought in the table, data was filled out with zeros to a certain length, for example, 10 characters. If that is the case, whatever the user types should also be filled out to 10 characters.
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