Re: [MS_AccessPros] input mask to prevent punctuation characters

 

Duane and John, thank you both.

I was thinking of the "a's" but it seemed silly to be typing in 50 characters.  I thought there might be some character like *a* or something but I could not find that anywhere in help text.

---In MS_Access_Professionals@yahoogroups.com, <JohnV@...> wrote :

I would think an Input Mask (as long as all you allow are letters and numbers) like this would work:

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

That's a letter or number required in the first character and optionally a letter or number (but nothing else) in the other 49 spaces.

John Viescas, Author

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On Jan 17, 2017, at 9:40 AM, Duane Hookom duanehookom@... [MS_Access_Professionals] <MS_Access_Professionals@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

I would add some code that intercepts the keystrokes in the text box using the KeyPress event:

Private Sub Text0_KeyPress(KeyAscii As Integer)

    Dim strProhibitedCharacters As String

    strProhibitedCharacters = "'?)(/&%ç*+;,:._-!" & Chr(34)

    If InStr(1, strProhibitedCharacters, Chr(KeyAscii)) > 0 Then

        KeyAscii = 0

    End If

End Sub

Regards,

Duane

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From: MS_Access_Professionals@yahoogroups.com <MS_Access_Professionals@yahoogroups.com> on behalf of david.pratt@... [MS_Access_Professionals] <MS_Access_Professionals@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2017 5:45 PM
To: MS_Access_Professionals@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [MS_AccessPros] input mask to prevent punctuation characters

 

I have a text field (max 50 characters) that I wish to prevent the use of any punctuation characters in.  I can't figure out how to set the input mask with a field this large.

Thank you.

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