Question\Enhancement - {parseNumbers: true} when a number isn't a number

[Desmodue]

Hi

Probably an edge case but I have some data that is a number but needs to be treated as a string and also data that is a number but needs to remain as a number. So I do need parseNumbers: true.

example postcode=01220
.parse returns { postcode : 1220 }
Which is now invalid.What I would like is { postcode : '01220' }

Another example is telephone number
telephone=012345678
.parse returns { telephone: 12345678 } would like { telephone: '012345678' }

What would be nice is the ability to prefix the value so that it is treated as a string and the prefix stripped ?
option {parseNumbers: true, treatAsTextPrefix: '<'}

telephone=<012345678 would result in { telephone: '012345678'

Or is there some other way to achieve this?

[sindresorhus]

Just don't use the parseNumbers option and parse the string properties yourself. Then you have full control. I'm not gonna add a treatAsTextPrefix option.

[smenshikov]

I have the same case where I need to avoid bringing few fields to a number. This feature could be very useful