>Greeting all!
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>I'm sitting here teaching a VFP class and I got stumped by a question!!! How does one add an "X" for phone extension in a phone number input mask? We tried "(999) 999-9999 X999" but the X keeps getting intepreted as the alphanumeric placeholder in the mask.
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>Answers anyone????

Hi Jim,

You cannot do that because VFP doesn't provide escape codes for Input Mask placeholders. You can add separate textbox for extension and put 'X' as a label in front of it.