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Provides UITextField formatting masks. Such as phone number and credit card number formatters.

CHRTextFieldFormatter

CHRTextFieldFormatter allows you to apply an input mask to a UITextField instance.

Features

  • Does not mute Copy/Cut/Paste events.
  • Correctly calculates cursor position.
  • Does not require UITextField subclassing.
  • Provides CHRTextMask interface to allow custom text masking algorithm implementation.
  • Subclasses NSFormatter.

Implemented Masks

There are two kind of masks available:

  • CHRPhoneNumberMask to apply cellular phone number mask.
  • CHRCardNumberMask to apply credit card number mask.

Phone Number Mask

Phone number mask can be configured to have non-deletable prefix. For example:

    CHRPhoneNumberMask *mask = [CHRPhoneNumberMask new];
    mask.prefix = @"+7";

Installation

Drag *.h and *.m files to your project.

Usage

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];
    
    self.phoneNumberFormatter = [[CHRTextFieldFormatter alloc] initWithTextField:self.phoneNumberTextField mask:[CHRPhoneNumberMask new]];
    self.cardNumberFormatter = [[CHRTextFieldFormatter alloc] initWithTextField:self.cardNumberTextField mask:[CHRCardNumberMask new]];
}

- (BOOL)textField:(UITextField *)textField shouldChangeCharactersInRange:(NSRange)range replacementString:(NSString *)string {
    if (textField == self.phoneNumberTextField) {
        return [self.phoneNumberFormatter textField:textField shouldChangeCharactersInRange:range replacementString:string];
    } else if (textField == self.cardNumberTextField) {
        return [self.cardNumberFormatter textField:textField shouldChangeCharactersInRange:range replacementString:string];
    } else {
        return YES;
    }
}

Run the example project to see the demo.