looking to use: text field properties>special>arbitrary mask to disallow specific characters in a field?
disallow characters in a form field
2009-10-14 07:02:41
My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.1.3, Macintosh
Acrobat Pro 9.1.3, Macintosh
2009-10-14 08:20:07
#2
I tried using the "O" parameter to allow only alpha-numeric input, but it appears to require the number of characters to match the number of "O"s.
For this application, I can live with allowing only alpha-numeric (if the number of characters is not restricted). The specific request is to disallow the "." character (period).
Thank you for your help!
For this application, I can live with allowing only alpha-numeric (if the number of characters is not restricted). The specific request is to disallow the "." character (period).
Thank you for your help!
2009-10-14 08:41:45
#3
Have a look at Thom Parker's [url=http://www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/text-matching-regular-expressions]Text matching with regular expressions[/url]. You can reject the '.' in the custom keystroke or edit it out of the filed with the custom format.
2009-10-14 09:00:39
#4
I don't write Javascript, but the
"\w --Matches word characters a-z, A-Z, 0-9, and the underscore" would solve my problem.
How do I apply that to the format properties of a single Acrobat form field?
"\w --Matches word characters a-z, A-Z, 0-9, and the underscore" would solve my problem.
How do I apply that to the format properties of a single Acrobat form field?
Do you want to limit to only numbers or alphabetical characters or specify only certain characters?
If you want to limit to certain specific characters, you will need to write custom code for the keystroke using the RegExp object.
George Kaiser