Disable mask when certain characters entered

[newmangreen]

Hi,
I have such a case that I couldn't find an answer.
In our report parameter pages, we enable user to enter filter criteria in (masked) inputs like below;

*.2017 : Means all 2017 records
>1.000 : Means bigger than 1000
0506*60 : Means starts with 0506 and ends with 60

Users can also enter exact values without any filter characters (['*' , '!' , '>' , '<' , '=' , ';'])
What I want is to disable mask when these characters entered and re-enable it when these characters removed.
Thank you.

[RobinHerbots]

@newmangreen ,

Did you try with alternators? Removing can also mean just using a mask which accepts everything

so something like (99-aaa-99)|({}) This case will show the first mask as long the input for it is valid, otherwise will revert to the other.

Make a jsfiddle to make it more concrete.

[newmangreen]

https://jsfiddle.net/newmangreen/6unug1y4/

Alternators didn't help since;

• I couldn't use custom alias within alternator definiton
• If all characters entered complying with first mask, no key entry allowed to bypass first mask.

I developed a custom solution by listening keydown events and toggling mask.

One out-of-scope problem is that when removing inputmask, value is reverted to unmasked value although I used "autoUnmask:false" option. See FIXME in jsfiddle.

[RobinHerbots]

@newmangreen ,

I will fix the unmasking issue when removing the mask for you

[newmangreen]

Thank you, I checked the fix, it is OK.