Custom Formatting for Social Security Number

Question

First of all, I'm running Adobe Acrobat 9 Standard. (I know, it's old)

If anyone can tell me how to get a newer version for a "one time" fee, and does not require subscription pricing, I'd appreciate it.

I can use the custom formatting for SSN: 123-45-6789

But I'd like to us a formatting "pattern?" that will give me: 123 - 45 - 6789.

I did it for date by choosing custom date and entering: mm - dd - yyyy.

I can't figure out how to do the same for a Social Security Number.

try67 · Accepted Answer

Select the Special option under the Format tab, then Arbitrary Mask and enter into it (without the quotes): "999 - 99 - 9999"

Karl Heinz Kremer · Answer

There is no easy solution as with the date: The "mm", "dd", and "yyyy" patterns have special meaning. For a custom formatting of the social security number, you need to dig a bit deeper into Acrobat's features. The following is a very simple way to accomplish this, but it does not check for a valid pattern of the SSN:

var groups = event.value.split('-');
var ss_num = groups.join(' - ');
event.value = ss_num;

You would use this script as a custom formatting script. If you want to do a bit more pattern matching, you could use regular expressions to make sure that you have a pattern of three digits followed by a '-', followed by two digits, followed by '-' and finally followed by four digits.

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