Format Tab  - Field Properties (Special)

The format tab for field properties - Special - gives a phone number option which allows 10 numeric characters or spaces. UK Telephone number format is 11 numeric characters. Would be useful to have a pre defined UK phone format. If you try and create one using the 'arbitary mask' option - that does not permit a mix of numeric values or spaces - it only allows numeric values.

If one looks at the code Acrobat uses for formatting one would see that the JavaScript uses RegExp object to construct the needed pattern to test keystrokes, validation, and formatting. So it is possible for one to either field level or document level functions for other types of data to collect.
Beginning JavaScript for Adobe Acrobat has 3 chapters dealing with this subject.

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