Hi Naomi,

thanks, but I don't think the Format is for this.

I did get it to work with the Inputmask.

>>Hi,
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>>I am letting users define what they want to use as inputmasks. So they may enter a value as "999" as an inputmask for a field, or they may enter something like ["!" + REPLICATE("X",19)].
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>>When my form runs, it goes through the table that has these fields and inputmasks defined and programmartically adds the appropriate controls to the form. If the inputmask is a simple string like "999" that works fine. If however it is an expression I hav etried doing this:
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>>loControl.InputMask = EVALUATE(m.lcInputMask)
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>>But all this does is set the input mask to the actual string: "!" + REPLICATE("X",19)
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>>Any ideas how to get this to work?
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>! should be in the format, not in the inputmask.