setText for edittext causing crash in addTextChangedListener

Question

Hi all

Im trying to strip all non standard letter characters from an edittext textbox on an android app im making. I am successfully creating a listener, obtaining the value and removing bad chrs via a regex. however, the .setText line below causes the app to crash. Anyone got any ideas how to get around this and dynamically mask certain chrs?

filenameTextBox.addTextChangedListener(new TextWatcher() {

  public void onTextChanged(CharSequence s, int start, int before, int count) {

   FILENAME=s.toString();
   FILENAME = FILENAME.replaceAll("[^a-zA-Z]", "");
   filenameTextBox.setText(FILENAME);

} }

Answer 1

Aren't you creating an infinite loop? You can log each time the handler is called and see how many times it's called.