Input Mask - IP Address

[Jai_Friday]

Good morning,

I am trying to creat an input mask for an ip address field in a customer
database I am running, so it forces the full stops inbetween the numbers for
easier user entry

I have tried creating one 000.000.000.000;;_ but of course the issue arises
where by it is expecting it to be filled out with three digits when the ip
address may conitain 1 or 2 in each part.

Is there a way of getting around this or is there possibly other input mask
pluggins I can download?

thanks in advance

Jai

 

[Allen Browne]

Use 4 fields of type Number, size Byte.

On your form/report, place the 4 text boxes side-by-side, with just a dot in
the labels between them.

An IP address is a 4-byte value (perhaps 6 in the future), so that's the
simplest way to interface four unsigned bytes.

 

[Jai_Friday]

Thanks allen,

I have gone towards that solution,

Jai

 

[Alan Moseley]

Have you tried 099.099.099.099

It doesn't perform any vaildation (eg no octet greater than 255) so Allen
Browne's answer is probably better, but it should work nevertheless.