>Hi Folks.
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>The "R" Format property. You know, the thing that applies a format mask to data as specified in the InputMask property. The Builders love it. I don't. Phone numbers, for example. If the data is stored as (999) 999-9999 and you use (999) 999-9999 as your InputMask and have R in the Format, you end up with a display that looks like "((99) 9) 99", or something to that effect.
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>Frankly, I like to store data as formatted so that I don't have to worry about formatting it from whatever front-end I get it from. So the "R" is worse than useless for me.
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>What do y'all think?

It was once a space issue, though who cares about that now? But the little Efficiency Devil that sits on my shoulder still grumbles about it a little :)

But more seriously, what about editing? Are you going to make the users enter the formatting scheme? How do you deal with that?