>Hey everyone,
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>I have a text field for collecting weight that I need to allow the user to input into. I initially set the input mask for the text box to 99999 and max field length to 5. This works until they have to enter a value of 91.17.
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>If I max the input mask ##### then they can enter enter blanks (and my users have) which screws up converting that value to a numeric later for processing.
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>I have to allow for the decimals. Should I use ##### and then do a STRTRAN afterwards and remove any blanks. I'm not sure that this will help ensure the right data was entered since they shouldn't have entered any blanks to begin with. That was why I went with the 99999 format.
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>Thanks for your thoughts and suggestions.
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>Kirk

Why not using numeric field for the input with 99999.99 as input mask?