Re: What trigger to use to determine length of input character string

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 16:29:50 -0700
Message-ID: <1083972590.309011_at_yasure>


G.Schiber wrote:

> I am using Oracle Forms to develop an application.
>
> I want to input into a data field and once I have entered 10
> characters, I need the program to execute a program unit. But I don't
> know what trigger to check after each character is entered to see if
> the length of the string has reached 10.
>
> Please help.
> Thanks

This is an inappropriate thing to do. Why 10 characters? Why not let them finish and then use the VALIDATE ITEM trigger?

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Received on Sat May 08 2004 - 01:29:50 CEST

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