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February 28th, 2012, 04:14 PM

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formatting text with a "-"

I have a text field where I need to format it to insert a "-" after the 3rd and 5th character so it looks like this XXX-XX-XXXX.

Does anyone know the syntax for this?

Thanks!

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February 28th, 2012, 05:14 PM

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Just use a combination of calls to the concat() and substring() functions.

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