Don't use symbols...

[Jonathon Carr]

How can I stop certain symbols such as / \ : * ? < > | from being used in a text box?

Jonathon.

[John G Duffy]

Edit them out something like this

private Sub Text1_KeyPress(KeyAscii as Integer)
Dim NoWant as string
NoWant = "/ \ : * ? < > "
If NoWant Like "*" & Chr$(KeyAscii) & "*" then KeyAscii = 0
End Sub




John G

[Clearcode]

You might want to remove the spaces from the string "NoWant"?

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[Cakkie]

Got a point there

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[John G Duffy]

Did not notice that. It appears to be a flaw in Cut and Paste because I cut and pasted that string directly from the original post which does not have the spaces.
Will try it again to see what happens.

John G

[John G Duffy]

I lied. The original post does have the spaces.

John G

[Cakkie]

Yeahyeah, blame it on someone else

Tom Cannaerts
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[Jonathon Carr]

Thanks John,

Tried it, and it works perfecly,

Jonathon.

[urs]

on keypress event
u can check its keyascii
suppose u want to cancel "a space" who's keyascii=32
if keyascii=32 then
keyascii=0
end if
or else if u dont know the keyascii then
if(keyascii=asc("/")) then
keyascii=0
end if
best of luck