On Jul 21, 2009, at 09:42, Schuh, Richard wrote:
The help file certainly does specify it:Operands n specifies the number of characters to include in the timestamp. Valid values are 1 through 16. The default is 8. If n is less than 16, the
I don't see where it's specified, either in the help file itself, or in the excerpt you provided. It would be nice if invalid values caused an error to be reported. (But I'm unable to reproduce the OP's (mis-)behavior. Perhaps I'm at a different level.)
-----Original Message----- [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce Hayden Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 5:53 AM The discussion about timestamps had me look at the timestamp stage, and I noticed that arguments above 16 to that stage make it produce unexpected output: pipe literal|timestamp 17|cons 8888888888888888. Ready; pipe literal|timestamp 18|cons È8È8È8È8È8È8È8È8.. Ready; The help file doesn't document that the argument must be 16 or less, but then again it also doesn't specify what it does with arguments larger than 16. This was tested on sublevel 20.
-- gil
