Substring a value for display and concatenate for validation?

[Kermit Piper]

Hello,

I have a validation script for upc codes which is currently working for
values that are entered into one text box. I've been asked to break up
the text box into 3 separate fields to accept the 1st digit, middle 10
digits, then last check digit. What I'm doing is substringing the
initial values then concatenating them. What I'm not sure of is, how to
handle the validation. I was previously firing an onBlur after the text
box but now that I have three, and I need the values to concatenate
into one for the validation. Should I just fire a function after the
3rd field that concatenates the 3 values, then pass that value to the
validation function? Or is there a better way?

I was also wondering if there was something I could find like an input
mask, but something that could just "overlay" on top of a regular text
box with one value which could give the appearance of having
separations for certain digits, in this case the first and last. Hope
this all makes sense and someone can help. I would sure appreciate any
help at all.

Thanks,
KP

[Stephen Chalmers]

Kermit Piper wrote:

Hello,

I have a validation script for upc codes which is currently working for
values that are entered into one text box. I've been asked to break up
the text box into 3 separate fields to accept the 1st digit, middle 10
digits, then last check digit. What I'm doing is substringing the
initial values then concatenating them. What I'm not sure of is, how to
handle the validation. I was previously firing an onBlur after the text
box but now that I have three, and I need the values to concatenate
into one for the validation. Should I just fire a function after the
3rd field that concatenates the 3 values, then pass that value to the
validation function? Or is there a better way?

Validating on blur is seen as rather hostile and un-professional, but
if you must,
just call the function with the onblur event of all the involved
fields, then have the
function abort if any field is blank.

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S.C.