Hiding the first 5 numbers of SSN within a Crystal Report?

Post Author: robertr
CA Forum: General
I am sure that this is easy - but how do you set a field such as an SSN field to only display the following: with a standard Crystal Report?
XXX-XX-1234 (I would like to get this output everytime I run this report)
We need this for security purposes.
I really appreciate anyone's help on this.
Thanks!

Post Author: SKodidine
CA Forum: General
create a formula such as this and place it instead of SSN:
SSN stored as numbers:
'XXX-XX-' & totext(({table.ssn}),0,'','')[6 to 9];
SSN stored as string with hyphens:
'XXX-XX-' & {table.ssn}[8 to 11];

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