<

The left end of the visible segment of the mask. This character and everything to its left are hidden in the edit field. There should be no more than one instance of this character in the mask.

>

The right end of the visible segment of the mask. This character and everything to its right are hidden in the edit field. This character is replaced by a dash during validation. If there is a visible item that begins with <, then it must be terminated with a matching >.

#

This character can be a numeric digit.

%

This character can be an alternate numeric digit that enables the mask to control the way a custom action differentiates fields.

@

This character can be a random numeric digit. This character should not appear in the visible part of the mask.

&

This character can be any character.

^

This character can be an alternate character enabling the mask to control the way a custom action differentiates fields.

?

This character can be an alternate character enabling the mask to control the way a custom action differentiates fields.

`

Grave accent marks ` (ASCII value 96) can represent an alternate character enabling the mask to control the way a custom action differentiates fields.

_

This character is a literal underscore character.

=

This character is the field terminator. It must follow a #, %, ^, or `. This creates one more input position of the same type as the preceding positions and terminates the field with a '-' separator.