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Resolved Edit mask is good in design mode but not in script

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  1. Berka Frenfert
    Berka Frenfert
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  3. Wednesday, 29 May 2019 08:35 AM UTC

I need to set this edit mask 19~05-#### to a datawindow string column through script.

 

In design mode i can set the same edit mask 19~05-#### and it works fine but when i try to set it in power script then this edit mask 19~05-#### crashes my app.

This is how i check the mask in code:

String theMask

theMask = dw_1.Describe("Document_Number.EditMask.Mask")
dw_1.Object.Document_Number.EditMask.Mask = theMask

Describe function in above line returns correct edit mask i used in design mode of DataWindow but modifying same edit mask generates run-time error.

Please note that there is ~ in the edit mask. That i used to make 0 no meaning other than just a zero. That works and in edit field a space is not shown instead of 0.

Is there someone who has knowledge and help me to fix that problem?

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René Ullrich
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  1. Wednesday, 29 May 2019 10:36 AM UTC
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Hi Berka,

you have to double the ~ if you want to set it in the EditMask.

 

theMask = lds.Describe("Document_Number.EditMask.Mask")
ll_pos = Pos (theMask, "~~")
IF ll_pos > 0 THEN theMask = Replace (theMask, ll_pos, 1, "~~~~")
lds.Object.Document_Number.EditMask.Mask = theMask

 

HTH,

René

 

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Berka Frenfert
  1. Berka Frenfert
  2. Wednesday, 29 May 2019 10:57 AM UTC
Very Nice !!! it worked with ~~~~
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Berka Frenfert
  1. Berka Frenfert
  2. Wednesday, 29 May 2019 11:47 AM UTC
René, I was trying with two ~~ signs before you gave idea to use four ~~~~ but really, i am still thinking why four worked.
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René Ullrich
  1. René Ullrich
  2. Wednesday, 29 May 2019 11:53 AM UTC
~ is a escape character, so you have to double it if you want to set it for the EditMask.

But to get two ~ in a string variable you have to write four ~ (two for each ~).

So the literal "~~~~" results in ~~ in the string that the Datawindow makes to ~ for you editmask expression.

;-)

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