0 in Phone Number Field

Hey all,
I was just wondering is there a way to display a phone number with the 0 at the beginning of the number. This isn't a requirement, but I would like to. Would help the user.
I have already made the tables and inserted the data. I have searched about the net with not many results.
The number field is 11 digits and as a result of this problem I have had a few numbers with 11 numbers that aren't 0. I figured this would also assist error check and avoid any anomalies in the data.
Could I run a script to correct this problem? or would it be in APEX attribute settings?
Any help would be appreciated :)
Thank's in advance.
Edited by: 948251 on 02-Aug-2012 10:52

948251 wrote:
Hey all,
I was just wondering is there a way to display a phone number with the 0 at the beginning of the number. This isn't a requirement, but I would like to. Would help the user.
I have already made the tables and inserted the data. I have searched about the net with not many results.
The number field is 11 digits and as a result of this problem I have had a few numbers with 11 numbers that aren't 0. I figured this would also assist error check and avoid any anomalies in the data.
Could I run a script to correct this problem? or would it be in APEX attribute settings?
Any help would be appreciated :)
Thank's in advance.
Edited by: 948251 on 02-Aug-2012 10:52Of course, the best way to fix it is to use the correct data type in the first place. Just because it is referred to as a "phone *number*" doesn't make it a NUMBER. Neither a telephone "number", nor a US Postal zip code, nor a US Social Security "number" have any properties of numbers. You would never do any mathematical operations on them. They are really just character strings which, by convention, are limited to the same characters that are used to represent numbers.
And now you are dealing with one of the problems of using the wrong data type. Fortunately, this is not as severe as using the wrong data type for a DATE.

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