Question: Why the 10-character minimum limit?

[Pontiac76]

Although I COULD change how I'm doing things here, I'm wondering why there's a limit on the minimum number of characters that can be part of the string to be written to QR?

I'm writing out serially numbered tags going from something like 2412-001 to 2412-999 where 24 represents 2024, 12 is Dec, and then the sequence of numbers. On my end I can make it 202412-001 but that just makes the printout just a hair bigger font size.

If there's a reasonable answer, great. If not, where can I go and make the change on my side to reduce the limit?

I've gone to other sites and done the 8-character print on a QR and it works just fine.

[dmuth]

Oh wow--that's a use case I had not thought of! I originally had URLs in mind, but this is also a legitimate use!

I'm currently on Winter vacation, so I'll take a closer look at my code in early January, and if I can't determine a specific reason for that, I will adjust the limit accordingly. Either way, I'll keep you posted this issue!

Merry happy whatever 🎉

-- Doug

[Pontiac76]

Absolutely no rush on this, enjoy your holidays, and put this on the back burner as a low priority. I still have about 394 QR stickers to go through that I've printed, so I should be good for a while. ;) (I'm inventorying all my computer hardware, right down to the RAM sticks)

I was just thinking about in the application I'm writing that I'd interface with a local running server to get the QR to a bitmap and have the app spit out a sheet of QRs to cut up when I need more, or I just want to change year/month, or I want to torture myself again and cut up 400 itty bitty tiny little labels on a manual paper slicer. {sigh}

I had run the query in my app against a test URL, and it worked, but when I then changed to my 8-character string as another test, the application broke. I went to the browser, tried the same, and that's where I got the hint on the 10-character limit. AWESOME use of error codes and descriptions!