General information
Category:
Forms & Form designer
One other thing: if you have to do some manipulation on the string, you must strip the formatting first before manipulating it if you store the data formatted. For example, you would strore a credit card number with the spaces. To validate if the credit card number is valid, you must strip the space first. That add some overhead to the process.
>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.
>
>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.
>
>What do y'all think?
Previous
Reply
View the map of this thread
View the map of this thread starting from this message only
View all messages of this thread
View all messages of this thread starting from this message only