Thanks very much for those suggestions. The RegExUtil class is almost perfect, except that it will strip out decimal places since they are non-numeric characters. In the focus in/out events I am trying to assign the numeric value of the TextInput's text property to the data property minus the currency symbol and thousands separator. The tricky part is the decimal place. The RegExUtil strip function will remove the decimal place since it is a non-numeric character and so the value saved to the .data property is wrong. The other thing to consider is that for some locales, a comma is used for a decimal point. So if we want to save this back to the database, the comma has to be replaced with a period.
This shouldn't be too hard though - I'll just use string functions to find the decimal character, then split the number into 2 parts, strip the extra characters with the RegExUtil function and then concatenate them back with a "." character to save to the db. Thanks again.
