How to autoformatting a textinput while the user is typing in it?

[Frederico]

Hi power community,

Here is the problem:

I need to autoformat a textinput while the user is typing in it. It's not so simple as autoformatting currency because the field is a driver license number with the following pattern:

"[a-zA-Z]" & Digit & Digit & Digit & Digit & Hyphen & Digit & Digit & Digit & Digit & Digit & Hyphen & Digit & Digit & Digit & Digit & Digit

For example: A1234-12345-12345

Until now, I've managed to do something similar with the following approach (if the pattern is just numbers works fine):

Using 2 controls: Timer1 and TextInput1

TextInput1 properties:  default = var  /  Maximum length = 17

Timer1 properties: Duration= 2 / Repeat = on / OnTimerStart =  as the below image

The problem with that approach is if I insert a letter won't work (probably because of the Value function). 

Do you know how I can solve this?

Thanks!

[poweractivate]

@Frederico 

Check if this here helps: Using a Collection of different masks based on Text Length and Lookup to dynamically apply mask.

from:

Max Length on text field + automatic dashes in between letters? 

[Frederico]

Thanks for sharing. I already knew these links, they help me to solve the problem for only numbers pattern.

But I don't know how to adapt to a pattern that contains a letter in the first place (e.g.: A1234-12345-12345)

[WarrenBelz]

HI @Frederico ,

This will do the job at the end of the input (of 14 characters) on the OnChange of the Text box

UpdateContext(
   {
      varText: Self.Text,
      varLen: Len(Self.Text)
   }
);
If(
   varLen >= 14,
   UpdateContext(
      {
         varText: 
         Left(
            varText,
            5
         ) & "-" & 
         Mid(
            varText,
            6,
            5
         ) & "-" & 
         Mid(
            varText,
            11,
            5
         ) 
      }
   );
   Reset(Self)
)

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