Re: Re: Question about phone number storage.

I hate DBs that store phone numbers as (NNN)NNN-NNNN. What, you don't ever want any money from outside the United States?

- tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

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Re: Re: Re: Question about phone number storage. by extremely (Priest) on Jan 19, 2001 at 04:57 UTC
I once had to deal with a DB (of my own creation, gone wild) that had three fields for the three parts of the NANP number. We wound up stuffing international into it by making the first field a varchar that allowed up to 8 or 9 digits, making the second field NULL allowed and making the last field a varchar that could hold up to 15 digits. Thus international numbers had a huge areacode and a huge local number and could be distinguished from NANP numbers by having a null NXX. I am still worried about buring in hell over that one. Of course we were able to get away with minor perl changes and didn't have to change one script at all. Still, I'm pretty sure I owe a few coders beer just for not complaining louder in the meeting when they decided to do it. -- $you = new YOU; honk() if $you->love(perl)	[reply]
Re (tilly) 3: Question about phone number storage. by tilly (Archbishop) on Jan 19, 2001 at 07:32 UTC
Why yes. Canadians are allowed to pay. But you can't ship anything to them, and will confuse them about the date they won't be be able to get things by.	[reply]