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I have a problem with phone number searching in a database.

The problem is that the phone numbers are not stored consistently.

Most U.S. phone numbers are stored with the punctuation squeezed out. But there are a few that are stored including the punctuation.

Most non-U.S. phone numbers are stored "as-entered." But again, there may be exceptions.

And we don't know which of these possibilities we're looking for until after we find it.

Is there an SQL construct, that works back to V4R4, in which, if we're given a raw value of, say, (714) 555-1212, we will find both "(714) 555-1212" and "7145551212" in the file?

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JHHL

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