# Only accept starting with 8 no dashes or dots or spaces **URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/only-accept-starting-with-8-no-dashes-or-dots-or-spaces/26623 **Category:** Ask for Help **Created:** [May 11, 2021, 4:04am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/only-accept-starting-with-8-no-dashes-or-dots-or-spaces/26623 "2021-05-11T04:04:27Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 17
### Author: ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager) #### Post date: [May 15, 2021, 7:29pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/only-accept-starting-with-8-no-dashes-or-dots-or-spaces/26623/17 "2021-05-15T19:29:23Z")
If it’s a number, you should be able to count the the number of digits after the fact with some math. You can see an example below. The only difference is that since you already have numbers, there shouldn’t be a need to convert to all 1’s to make it work. I’m not sure though if such a large number would calculate properly, so no guarantee that it would work. This is of course if you need a count after the data has been input and saved to the table. If you need it in a form, then @gvalero’s idea is probably better. > [@Filter visibility by Character Count!](https://community.glideapps.com/t/filter-visibility-by-character-count/20867/4): > > I think I got something here. Not the cleanest solution, but not too bad either. Just takes a little math. Here you can see that column 11 has two rows with text in it. New Column L has a template with the value of 1 in it. New Column J is a template that replaces every letter (and space if you choose) with the number ‘1’. You shouldn’t need to replace any numbers as they are already numbers, but you will probably have to include every letter of the alphabet along with any symbols you would… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.glideapps.com/t/only-accept-starting-with-8-no-dashes-or-dots-or-spaces/26623)._