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2010-09-03 09:42:50

uschad

Registered: Mar 3 2010

Posts: 19

Answered

have never been able to get this issue to work satisfactory. Any help would be great. I need a date field in the MM/DD/YYYY format that will automatically fill our and enter the slashes when the user enters information. For instance if they enter 6291978 the script will automatically enter it as 06/29/1978. I need it to read and enter any leading zeros and to automatically enter the slashes. thanks in advance.

My Product Information:
LiveCycle Designer, Windows

2010-10-13 00:59:43

radzmar

Registered: Nov 3 2008

Posts: 1202

Well,

this isn't a trivial topic because there are to many possible ifs, ands and buts.
You cannot know what your users really type into the field.
So, you will have to design a script that is very tolerant to input values.
This example will work for inputs like in your description 6291978 or 06291978.
It also removes all eventually entered spaces and only works if the user enters 7 or 8 digits.

var Input = $
if(Input eq "") then
	$ = null
else
	Input = Ltrim(Rtrim(Input))
	if(Len(Input) >= 7 and Len(Input) <= 8) then
		var GetYear = Right(Input, 4)
		var GetMonth = Right(Replace(Input, GetYear, ""),2)
		var GetDay = Replace(Input, Concat(GetMonth, GetYear), "")
 
			if(Len(GetDay) < 2) then
				GetDay = Concat("0", GetDay)
			endif
		$ = Concat(GetDay, "/", GetMonth, "/", GetYear)
	endif
endif

radzmar
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2010-09-05 08:06:43

uschad

Registered: Mar 3 2010

Posts: 19

That seemed to do the trick. Thanks very much for the help.

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