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Reformat number into string

2009-04-03 15:18:39

Gheezer

Registered: Feb 16 2009

Posts: 19

Answered

I have looked and googled but I'm not having any luck with this problem. I dont' think asking the right question.

How do I convert a number 12345678 into 123-45678?

I've seen something about using this:
var 3dash5 = /^([0-9\s]{0,3})\-?([0-9\s]{0,5})\s*$/;

but I'm not sure how to incorporate it.

Troy

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.1.1, Windows

2009-04-04 02:22:09

try67

Registered: Oct 30 2008

Posts: 2398

That is a Regular Expression. It's possible to achieve what you want using it, but it's a bit complicated.
You can do it with some simple String manipulation, like so...

var str = "12345678";
var result = str.substring(0,3)+"-"+str.substring(3)

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