UITextField date formatting

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I have a UITextfield set up where users can fill in their date of birth in mm-dd-yyyy. But what I want is when the user fills in their date of birth that it replaces the m,d or y character with the number. Is this possible?

Thanks!

Look at `UITextField` delegate. But as suggested by @AnoopVaidya, a `UIDatePicker` would be more interesting. — Larme, May 07 '14 at 12:53
it more appropriate to use UIDatePicker for birthdate instead of UITextField... — Ashish Ramani, May 07 '14 at 12:56
possible duplicate of [UITextField format in xx-xx-xxx](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7709450/uitextfield-format-in-xx-xx-xxx) — Howli, May 22 '14 at 08:09

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

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Go with UIDatePicker.

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UITextField format in xx-xx-xxx

edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

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answered May 07 '14 at 12:59

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 07 '14 at 12:53

I think you want a placeholder "mm-dd-yyyy" which does not - as usual, hide when starting to type but hides letter for letter? I think this isn't how iOS works (anyhow you should use NSDatePicker), but if you have a reason why you do so you can use an UITextfield with an NSAttributedString (because of placeholder color) and update it accordingly to input events.

UITextField date formatting

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