Format phone numbers

I upgraded my 3G to a 4S. When all my contacts were imported into my new phone, I noticed that the phone numbers were not formatted properly, they looked like one big number, eg. "1231234567". Is there a way to format all of my numbers properly (eg. 1 (123) 123-4567) without having to type them in again? Is this a bug?

You can try regular expressions if you have Oracle 10
SQL> l
1   with t as (
2     select 1234567890 as pnum from dual)
3 select pnum,
4     regexp_replace(pnum, '^$?([[:digit:]]{3})$?[- .]?([[:digit:]]{3})[- .]?([[:digit:]]{4})$', '(\1) \2-\3') "w digit",
5     regexp_replace(pnum, '^$?(\d{3})$?[- .]?(\d{3})[- .]?(\d{4})$', '(\1) \2-\3') "with \d"
6* from t
10.2.0.2
SQL> /
      PNUM
w digit
with \d
1234567890
(123) 456-7890
(123) 456-7890
1 row selected.
Elapsed: 00:00:00.01
Sam

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