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Form Field Won't Allow Punctuation with Patterns

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2011-04-05 12:24:15
cgleix
Registered: Jan 18 2011
Posts: 4

I'm using Adobe LiveCycle ES version 9.something
 
I have run into this problem several times. When I apply a display pattern to a number field, a phone number for example, if the user enters "540-204-2153" instead of "2235462153" it won't display how it is set in the pattern: "(540) 204-2153".
 
The same problem happens when I have a currency pattern with commas and decimal points and the user enters the number with punctuation instead of a straight number.
 
Is there a way to override this?
 
Thanks!

My Product Information:
LiveCycle Designer, Windows
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2011-04-05 12:53:22
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radzmar
Expert
Registered: Nov 3 2008
Posts: 1202
Hi,

for those cases you can define several individual edit pattern.

Use this pattern in the edit tab...

text{'('999')' 999-9999}|text{9999999999}|text{999-999-9999}|text{999 999 9999}

... to allow inputs in the following formats

(123) 456-7890, 1234567890, 123-456-7890 and 123 456 7890

radzmar
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