What is 'Length' in password generation profile?

[Grindax]

In the below password profile, what exactly is the 'Length' property?

I have the same password profiles configured on each of my PCs, yet this 'Length' property differs on each. In the example below you can see that it is 12, but on another of my computers I see that it is 20.

<Profile>
                <Name>16 characters (4 lowercase, 4 uppercase, 4 digits, 4 special)</Name>
                <GeneratorType>Pattern</GeneratorType>
                <Length>12</Length>
                <CharSetRanges>ULD_______</CharSetRanges>
                <Pattern>l{4}u{4}d{4}s{4}</Pattern>
                <PatternPermutePassword>true</PatternPermutePassword>
</Profile>

[Dominik Reichl]

If the profile is of type 'Generate using character set', the Length node specifies the length of the password to generate.

In your example, the type is 'Generate using pattern', thus the value of the Length node is irrelevant.

Best regards,
Dominik