Help inserting value '-'

[asimac]

Hello -

 

I have values like this: 111-1111z, 111-1112z.  They represent product id's. 

 

I read these values in from a tab delimited txt file.  When I insert them into the database they appear like this '-1111z'.  The first three digits are cut off.

 

The column is a varchar(15).  Any ideas why is it inserting like this?

 

Any thoughts/ideas would be helpful.

[geekisthenewsexy]

i think it's probably in the format.. not sure.

do you have your codes? why don't you check it out first..