You could use "restrict" to prevent entry of any non-numeric characters.
Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of flexcoder2008 Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 6:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Unformatting currency values - best practice? What is the best practice or a good recommendation for formatting currency values and then removing the currency formatting for saving to the database? Here's what I have attempted to do so far. It works - but only if the user enters plain old numbers - if they add any currency symbol or thousand separator, it fails. I have a form which has some textInput's that are formatted with currencyFormatters. I initialize each textInput's .data property to "0". The textInput displays formatted currency amounts from xml data retrieved from the database. On the focusIn event, the text property is assigned to the textInput's .data property, so the value stays the same but the formatting is gone. And when a change event fires, the unformatted text in the textInput gets updated to the data property as well. On the FocusOut event, the currency formatting is re-applied. When I save to the db, I use the textInput's .data property. So for the most part this works, but fails if the user enters any currency symbols. Is there a good class or function someone could recommend to take a currency value in a textInput and strip out all the extra formatting characters? I am also trying to implement localization, so the various currency symbols will be different depending on the locale. Thanks
