A serial or lot number range that ends below where it starts
serial-range-reversedon by defaultJapanese / English
A serial or lot number range that ends below its start, such as "L5240 to L5210"
Example
How to fix
Check both numbers, and correct the wrong one or write the smaller one first.
Why it matters
When a range of serial or lot numbers ends below where it starts ("Serial numbers: B3900 to B3100", "Lots L5240 through L5210"), the reader cannot tell whether their product is in it. In a recall notice, affected units are missed or unaffected owners call in. It happens when only one of the two numbers is edited, or when they are written the wrong way round. Two letter-and-digit codes joined by a range mark (–, —), "to" or "through" are read only when "serial", "lot", "batch" or "S/N" stands earlier on the line. The numbers are compared only when both codes have the same letters, the same hyphen and the same number of digits (B3900 and B3100; B3900 and C0100 are different series).
What it does not flag
Codes on a line without "serial", "lot", "batch" or "S/N" (part numbers in a parts list may be an order), two codes with different letters or numbers of digits (A2400 to B0100), codes listed with a comma (A2400, A1800), codes with fewer than three digits, and a sentence with a word of change ("changed", "reduced") are not compared.
Turning it off or relaxing it
Technical details
- Layer
- L3
- Status
- stable
- Severity
- warning
- Languages
- Japanese and English
- Suited to
- business, technical, blog, legal, docs, academic, literature, speech
Levels
Set a level for this rule under rules in chaff.yaml. With nothing set, it runs at the level its genre gives it (see By genre below).
| strict | error |
|---|---|
| normal | warning |
| relaxed | info |
This rule has no limit to count to. A level sets how a finding is marked: relaxed keeps the finding and marks it a step lower.
By genre
- Runs by default in
- technical/spec, technical/readme, blog/tech, blog/essay, blog/owned-media, business/proposal, business/report, business/email, business/press-release, business/meeting-notes, legal/contract, legal/statute, legal/judgment, legal/patent, docs/manual, docs/faq, docs/glossary, academic/paper, speech/address, speech/transcript
- Turned off by the genre in
- literature/fiction, literature/essay, literature/poetry, literature/play
Message
The number range "{range}" ends below where it starts
This page is built from the rule's definition file:packages/chaff/rules/serial-range-reversed.yaml