How to set multiple InputFilters on EditText?

Question

int maxLength = 20;
private String blockCharacterSet = "~#^|$%'&*!;";

private InputFilter filter = new InputFilter()
{

    @Override
    public CharSequence filter(CharSequence source, int start, int end, Spanned dest, int dstart, int dend)
    {

        if (source != null && blockCharacterSet.contains(("" + source))) {
            return "";
        }
        return null;
    }
};

Here only one filter is working either blockCharacterSet or max length:

EditText etname;
etname.setFilters(new InputFilter[] { filter });
etname.setFilters(new InputFilter[] {new InputFilter.LengthFilter(maxLength)});

Can anyone please help me to set above two filters at a time?

Check the soln here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13414540/edittext-set-number-of-characters-programmatically — Raghavendra, Dec 08 '16 at 13:35

score 14 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 08 '16 at 13:36

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If you have two inputFilters, add it in array like below:

etname.setFilters(new InputFilter[] {
    new InputFilter.LengthFilter(maxLength), filter});

Finally the setFilter() takes array of input filters, so in the array you create in setFilters() should contain all the input filters.

answered Dec 08 '16 at 13:36

Akshay Bhat 'AB'

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ThanQ so much Your suggestion works.... we were using && to connet these filters... – veeraprasad Dec 08 '16 at 13:47

How to set multiple InputFilters on EditText?

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