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Numeric/Text (Picture)

Picture fields can be used to model edit patterns for phone numbers, social security numbers, part numbers, and others that contain digits but are not formatted like numeric quantities.

Using a picture field, the user specifies an edit pattern string using the normal numeric specifiers Z and 9.

Edit patterns created in earlier versions of CA Gen are also accepted. They are converted to Z and 9 specifiers by the generator.