Do you really mean...
Enter (123) 456-7890, and it's (416) 456-78 that gets stored.
I assume that'a typo and it should be (123) not (416).

Sounds like you are somehow adding a bunch of leading spaces when using parens. How do you get your form data? Are you using the CGI.pm module or did you roll-your-own. I suspect the latter since I see a %form_values hash (but I could be wrong)

The phone number input to the form always shows up in the sql-statement.
Are you sure? Remember you cannot see leading spaces if you are printing the SQL to a webpage unless you check the source.

As suggested by Joost, use placeholders and use the CGI module if you are not already doing so.

In reply to Re: DBI/MySQL system cutting off UPDATE values. by nedals
in thread DBI/MySQL system cutting off UPDATE values. by punch_card_don

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