Question about the Mask property on the MaskedTextBox

[Guest]

I'm using the MaskedTextBox to make sure the user inserts a valid
international phone number. I want to set the Mask property so that the user
sees +49-__-____-____ in the text box.

I set the Mask property to "+49-00-0000-0000", but because 9 is a Masking
element the masked text box contains +4_-__-____-____

How can I pass a 9 (or 0) into the Mask property so that it is not treated
as Masking elements?

Thank you for your help.

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Mark,

The documentation for the Mask property indicates that you can use "\"
as an escape property to escape a mask character, turning it into a literal.
Given that, your mask would be "+4\\9-00-0000-0000" (I used the double
backslash in case you were not using the literal identifer in C#, you could
also use @"+4\9-00-0000-0000" as well).

 

[Guest]

Thank you Nicholas. That was the part of the puzzle I was missing.

Mark,

The documentation for the Mask property indicates that you can use "\"
as an escape property to escape a mask character, turning it into a literal.
Given that, your mask would be "+4\\9-00-0000-0000" (I used the double
backslash in case you were not using the literal identifer in C#, you could
also use @"+4\9-00-0000-0000" as well).


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I'm using the MaskedTextBox to make sure the user inserts a valid
international phone number. I want to set the Mask property so that the
user
sees +49-__-____-____ in the text box.

I set the Mask property to "+49-00-0000-0000", but because 9 is a Masking
element the masked text box contains +4_-__-____-____

How can I pass a 9 (or 0) into the Mask property so that it is not treated
as Masking elements?

Thank you for your help.