>I know there's a way to do this.
>
>I want the inputmask to say '999 mg/min' but VFP 3.0 keeps recognizing
>the N as a command code and capitalizes it. Wasn't there a way to do this with the R command code?
>
>TIA

It was UT thread 09/04/97 finished with:
>>Gino, I got couple minutes to test your problem and what I found:
>>1. VFP really doesn't like to have 'n' within inputmask expression.
>>But
>>2. This is way to work around:
>>Text1.Init event:
>>this.format="R"
>>this.inputmask="99 min."
>>this.value=space(2)+"n"
>>
>>Text1.InteractiveChange event:
>>if substr(this.value,3,1)"n"
>> this.value=left(this.value,2)+"n"
>>endif
>
>
>Thank you very much for taking the time to look at the problem. Does this code also work if the field is
Numeric? By the way, your last reply was also very helpful.
>
> Thanks
> - Gino

I see that character type is more appropriate. You always can transform it into numeric when saving the record.

HTH.