# Character length validation for number fields
**URL:** https://community.noloco.io/t/character-length-validation-for-number-fields/272
**Category:** Feature Requests
**Tags:** feature-request
**Created:** [February 13, 2024, 9:02pm UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/character-length-validation-for-number-fields/272 "2024-02-13T21:02:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@buildwithjoel](https://community.noloco.io/u/buildwithjoel)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2024, 9:02pm UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/character-length-validation-for-number-fields/272/1 "2024-02-13T21:02:00Z")
Currently, “text length” form validation exists for text fields, but not number fields. I’d love to see a “character length” validation point for number fields.
**Use-Case Example**
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### Author:  [@darragh](https://community.noloco.io/u/darragh)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2024, 9:35pm UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/character-length-validation-for-number-fields/272/2 "2024-02-13T21:35:59Z")
Good suggestion Joel!
Another idea would be to turn the SSN field into a text field, and add Regex validation to it to limit it to 3 numbers
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### Author:  [@buildwithjoel](https://community.noloco.io/u/buildwithjoel)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2024, 2:07am UTC](https://community.noloco.io/t/character-length-validation-for-number-fields/272/3 "2024-02-16T02:07:08Z")
Good enough workaround for the input side of things. But for business intelligence (say an Airtable Interface displaying the data from the base used in Noloco, or a host of other platforms that might be used for a dashboard), that field will (for most platforms) still be read as a text field, so you won’t be able to build numerical metrics off of it (of course, SSN is a terrible example, but I’m thinking of other number entry fields where you might want to add some character length validation).
Long story short, good workaround – thanks for suggesting. Will still be nice though to have that validation option 🙂