Re: Storing Telephone Numbers

"Bob Marik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Further to my previous post, this is more of a poll.  How many of you
store
> phone numbers as a 7 or 10 digit number (string) and then format the
number
> for display or how many store the formatted number?   I would guess if you
> have a lot of foreign (non North American) numbers that you would be more
> likely to store them formatted since the formatting varies by country.
> Lastly, is there a general agreed upon format and procedure for handling
> phone numbers or does everyone just do their own thing?
> Bob Marik

We store phone numbers formatted. Just recently we changed the format to
force a 10 digit number as 7 digit dialing will disappear completely in
2005. Our phone numbers are stored as xxx-xxx-xxxx