>Is there away to display a 9 (or an X, #, etc.) as part of the inputmask? That is, I want the user to see the 9. Is there someway to just escape special characters like this, so VFP will treat them like a regular character?
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>TIA,
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>jam :)

Can you tell us what you are trying to do? We may be able to offer an alternative solution.