AS3 - Allow Forward Slash In Input Text?

Question

i'm trying to allow forward slash to be entered in my input text field

myInputField.restrict = "A-Za-z.\\-\\/";

the above text field should allow upper case letters, lower case letters, periods, hyphens and forward slashes. however, i can't seem to permit the forward slash.

Answer 1

You shouldn't have to escape the forward slash. Only - ^ and \.

Answer 2

I just pasted your code and it works as intended. I can write forward slashes without problem. Have you checked if the glyph is embedded? (in case you're embedding fonts, that is).

I'd write your code like this, though:

myInputField.restrict = "A-z.\\-/";

Since you don't need to escape forward slashes.