Damian: > > Safe to assume the 11th character is always 'z'? > Until July 2596.
The long queue ID format is: 6 or more characters for the time in seconds, 4 characters for the time in microseconds, the 'z'; the remainder is the file inode number encoded in the first 51 characters of the 52-character alphabet. The file inode part contains no 'z'. Therefore, to find the 'z' between the time and inode number, scan the queue ID from the 'right' end. Wietse