<< Click to Display Table of Contents >> Navigation:  General Functions > Auto-increment > Masks

When defining the starting and ending values of an auto-increment range, a mask is used.  The mask defines how the value is to be incremented, and which character positions in the value participate in being incremented.

A mask is a string of characters that together define how the auto-increment value will appear and how it will be incremented.

The MIE supports the following mask characters:

Any other character is interpreted as a literal.

Examples:

CC-000000 - generates a value that contains "CC-" followed by a 6 digit number

11111 - generates a value where each digit increments 0-9, then A-Z, starting with the right-most digit.