1177 <'Field':n> behaviour and docs fail to accord [6889]

[chrisjj]

Behaviour is as per

4690 Fixed <Track#:2> mask should not truncate >2 digits

but Help says:

Configuring Directory and Filename Formats
Mask Reference
<'Field':n> Can be used in conjunction with any of the above mask elements in order to force a particular alphanumeric field to a specified length ...

It seems the Help needs adjusting.

EDIT(TC) Tracked at http://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=6889

[rusty]

chrisjj,

Exceptions to the rule are clarified later in the paragraph.

-Rusty

[chrisjj]

Clarification... hmmm. ;)

All I see is a mention in one example ("<Year:3>") of an exception ("this latter example is an exception") to an exception ("numeric fields are normally not truncated") that is not identified an an exception... and that's not what I'd call clarification.

The behaviour is now so irregular - the effect varies from field to field, value to type and even length to length - that I think Help must spell it out. If that looks silly, well, perhaps the designer might want to ponder why ;)

Either way, "numeric fields are normally not truncated" should surely read "numeric values are not otherwise truncated", because e.g. Track 1/10 is.