Colin Law wrote: > What is wrong with storing it as a string anyway? I also thought about a way of normalizing phone numbers to make a 'reverse' search possible (I mean finding an address by phone number). But a number type would of course not make that easier. Leading zeros are important unless you would normalize all phone numbers to full international numbers that are the same from everywhere in the world.
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