On 04/11/2006, at 3:48 PM, Matthew Williamson wrote:
I'd like to use an editField mask so the user can enter a 10 digit
phone
number, and have the formatting done automatically, like so:
(###) ###-####
I'd just like to point out that this behaviour is almost always a bad
idea unless you are CERTAIN your users will only ever be entering
numbers in that format.
For example, in Australia, we have 7 digit local numbers (used to be
6) and put zero in front of the state prefix.
this is often written as:
(08) 9203 9626
However, a mobile number is 10 digits with the leading zero,
typically written as:
0416 249 271
Internationally, that mobile number is treated in the common style of
dropping the leading zero and adding the 61 country prefix, which is
conventionally prefixed with a plus sign.
+61 416 249 271
I think it is a more intelligent solution for phone number entry to
allow people to type them in complete with spaces, dashes (separator
commonly used), parens... and parse out the meaningful number.
Your display needs may vary if you are reporting lists of numbers you
want presented uniformly. However, at the least, you should allow for
exceptions which contain more or fewer digits.
Andy
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