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Custom pattern optional character

See original GitHub issue

I’m trying to create mask for optional negative decimal number. This doesn’t work: https://stackblitz.com/edit/angular-9mdtqs Any symbol can be written to the first place. optional boolean option does nothing

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Created 5 years ago
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sollennecommented, Jul 11, 2019

Why is this closed? I’m seeing the same issue… Check out his stackblitz link

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ValeriaKochegarovacommented, Apr 10, 2019

@Yokhtop please update new mask version and add in your component customPatterns = { V: { pattern: new RegExp(“-?”) }, 0: { pattern: new RegExp(“[0-9]”) } };

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