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Conditional Formatting with a special character

New Here ,
Sep 21, 2021 Sep 21, 2021

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Hi,

I am trying to highlight form fields in a pdf if the data in the field contains an asterisk before the number, for example "*8.596" may be in the field.  I have searched through multiple threads in this community and feel like maybe I am close, but it is not working.  With the asterisk being a special character, I added the backspace.I am not getting an error, it is just not highlighting the field.  Right now I am using this:

if (event.value=="\**") event.target.fillColor = color.yellow;
else event.target.fillColor = color.transparent;

Any suggestions on what I am doing wrong?  

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Community Expert , Sep 21, 2021 Sep 21, 2021

Replace:

(event.value=="\**")

With:

(/^\*/.test(event.value))

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Sep 21, 2021 Sep 21, 2021

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Replace:

(event.value=="\**")

With:

(/^\*/.test(event.value))

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Sep 27, 2021 Sep 27, 2021

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Thank you so much for your help.  It works!

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