Adding characters to start and stop in a text field?

"For 1 d bar codes, there are two options according to the type of form to use. The forms you create in Acrobat (acroforms) can be set up to use a bar code with a standard text field. If you want to include the standard start and stop character (*) or a control character, you can use JavaScript to add them. The control character should be calculated, but that can be easily done with JavaScript. »

How I go this. My current PDF form will make a first and last name on the form in a bar code format, but I have to add in * NML for the beginning and the other * end of the data that has been drawn from a SQL database.  example the pdf has a field named "borrower1_last_name" and who filed pulls the family name...  So I thought there should be an easy script as you say add to the properties of the field.

post here now, because no one seems to be able to point me to the correct resourse on the reader forum.

I answered your question last week: http://forums.adobe.com/message/4040845#4040845

Note that the same script can be used in the event Format instead of the Validate event if you do not add the start and stop characters of the value of the field, but just what is displayed.

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