Question

I have to run a very simple query like this in SQLite3.

INSERT OR REPLACE INTO tblPhoneList(Phone, PeopleId, StorageType) VALUES('[phone]', '1','1');

But whatever I do, the number is stored as 91912345789. The + prefix is ignored.
The field Phone is a String. Why does it ignore the + prefix?
Is there anyway to avoid this?

P.S. This code is run inside Android

EDIT:
This is the schema of the table

CREATE TABLE tblPhoneList(Phone STRING PRIMARY KEY ON CONFLICT REPLACE, StorageT
ype INTEGER, PeopleId INTEGER, FOREIGN KEY(PeopleId) references tblPeople(id));

Answer 1

<UPDATE> from the manual:

the declared type of “STRING” has an affinity of NUMERIC, not TEXT

so please change the type of this column to TEXT, and you should be done. </UPDATE END>

what is the type of your Phone column (try PRAGMA table_info (tblPhoneList))?. if it is TEXT (or BLOB), you shouldn’t have any problems – just tried this here. if it is INTEGER or REAL, you should convert it to TEXT – you cannot expect an INTEGER or REAL column to store the + string.

for all the details, see Datatypes In SQLite Version 3.