Mask Characters

Here are the characters you can use to define a value mask for a field:

A

Mandatory text character

a

Optional text character

9

Mandatory numeral

#

Optional numeral

C

Mandatory any character – Text or number

c

Optional any character – Text or number

>

Forces the right adjoining text character to upper case

>>

Forces all following text characters to upper case

<

Forces left adjoining text character to lower case

<<

Forces all previous text characters to lower case

$

Currency symbol – Locale-dependent

.

Actual character expected – Locale-dependent

-

Actual character expected – Locale-dependent

,

Separator is automatically inserted into the numeric value as the number is entered – Locale-dependent

\

Treat the next character as a literal

 

If one of these characters isn't specified in the mask, the mask won't be saved.