Hi, I'm just beginning to you around with the path mapper component and I've noticed a behavior that I found odd. Depending on if you feed the different data into some component before you plug them in or plug them directly into the path mapper it handles the data quite different.
As hinted though I'm not even sure I'm using it the right way.
the image is a little bit too degraded to see what masks you're using. It looks like you're using an asterisk for the input mask, which is actually illegal (no wildcards allowed yet), but it works anyway since you're not using the asterisk or multiplications in the target mask.
This has got nothing to do with the result you're seeing though, which indeed seems to be inconsistent. I'll need to dig a bit deeper to see what's going on.