How to enter text & numbers into text field?

I am designing a form for our Labor cases, and in the Case# field, which I have established as a (text field), I wish for the user to input the following as example:
2014-DAA-000012
I would like for the dashes to show automatically as does the social security number. Any takers on this? Thank you!

Hi,
you can use patterns to format you input a little bit.
You need 2 patterns in your text field:
One for displaying ...
text{9999-AAA-999999}
... and one for editing.
text{9999AAA999999}

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