Re: Variable-length Types

Josh,

> Thanks. You're probably right ... reformatting the phone numbers is
> going to be a lot less work than a custom type.
I remember from  the old days of Delphi/InterBase, and  even older days of
Paradox, there were so called input masks, US phone code mask would be like

(999)_000-00-00
or  something like  that (no  default values)  Borland has  released their
Turbo stuff for public domain, so it might be worth looking at.Implementing a  generic picture functions  (as in PL/I)
would probably be
 
easier and  cover more cases.  However, watch your back  with user-supplied
format strings, there's a plenty of ruined lives at BugTraq :)I'm just not sure what to do if 8 or 9 digits are
supplied?Maybe, reject,
 
assuming that  such things should  be caught  by UI, and  if we get  such a
weird thing, there's something really really wrong?


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