EditText input with pattern android

Question

I am having a EditText in which I have to accept alphanumeric input from user which is specific to pattern, and hyphens '-' are inserted automatically.

"XXX-XXX-XXXX"

how to achieve that ? Is there any pattern tool in android ?

Possible duplicate of [Live editing of users input](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4172242/live-editing-of-users-input) — bummi, Feb 27 '16 at 08:58

Savelii Zagurskii · Answer 1 · 2016-02-28T11:00:45.510

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You can achieve that with PatternedTextWatcher.

Edit:

EditText editText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.edittext);

// Add text changed listener for automatic dots insertion.
editText.addTextChangedListener(new PatternedTextWatcher("###-###-####"));

And in XML:

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/edittext"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:digits="1234567890-"/>

edited Feb 28 '16 at 11:00

answered Feb 27 '16 at 08:00

Savelii Zagurskii

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Elegant solution. Thanks – Taras Vovkovych May 22 '17 at 11:56
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It didn't follow pattern when I tried to delete characters at random intermediate position and then continued to add new characters from that position. – Chintan Shah Feb 20 '18 at 10:51

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:26

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You can use addTextChangedListener to EditText
Refer this question , which demonstrate it

edited May 23 '17 at 12:26

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answered Nov 22 '10 at 10:12

Labeeb Panampullan

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