Email and Phone Normalization: Common Mistakes

<p>A contact lookup finds no match because one phone number includes spaces and another does not. The obvious response is to clean every value aggressively. That can introduce a different problem: changing a valid identifier into the wrong one.</p> <p>Normalization should produce a consistent representation while retaining the original input when there is a justified need to inspect it.</p> <h2> S

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