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Yes, why not. Just define your observer before you run the validation, or define the validation observer.

if that is all, a simple:

$object->value = (int) str_replace('-', '', $object->value);

would do the job (assuming $object is the model object in the prototype of your observer method).

Depends on how you run validation.

If you use the validation observer, it's defined in your model (most logical is on before_save), and you define your observer before it.

If you run validation by hand, either by manually defining the rules in your controller (or in a model method like oil generates), or through a fieldset, you can't use an observer.

In those cases, alternative is a validation rule that validates the input and input format, and returns the normalized result (validation rules can modify the value to be validated too).

I can't comment if I don't know what you do.