I haven't completely decided if it's better to store 1234567890 and format it on retrieval or to format it first and store 123-456-7890. I guess unless I plan to do math or something with the raw data later (not too likely for a phone number), it probably doesn't make much difference.
If you're not going to do much searching by phone number, just displaying it, it'd probably be better to store it already formatted so you only have to format it once instead of every time it's displayed. Depends upon your application, though.
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