UWP Textbox should accept only one dot

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The textbox should only accept numbers and one . value. However, with my code, the input of numbers is also rejected as soon as I put a dot. I don't understand why, because in the if loop I do a check if the char I entered is a dot.

private void TextBox_BeforeTextChanging(TextBox sender, TextBoxBeforeTextChangingEventArgs args)
{
    args.Cancel = args.NewText.Any(c => !char.IsDigit(c) && ".".IndexOf(c) != 0);
    if (args.NewText.Any(c => c == '.' && sender.Text.IndexOf('.') > -1))
    {
        args.Cancel = true;
    }
}
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1 Answers

As far as I understand the documentation, the NewText property is the text after you have typed in the next character - so if the sender TextBox contains "12." & you type a 3, then NewText will be "12.3".

I am similarly confused by your first check - but in your second check you are checking the current state of the sender TextBox (which already has the the dot in it) and also the new modified string - which also has the dot in it - resulting in you setting Cancel to true.

The only string you should be checking is NewText - you need to modify the checks to make sure the string only contains digits & one dot. Something like this would work :

args.Cancel = args.NewText.Any(c => !char.IsDigit(c) && c != '.');
if ( args.NewText.Where( c => c == '.').Count() > 1 )
    args.Cancel = true;

There first line checks the string is only digits & dots, the second line checks for a single dot.

A single line solution would be to use a Regex - such as

args.Cancel = ! Regex.Match(args.NewText, @"^\d*\.?\d*$").Success;
PaulF0
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