wow the very author - thanks - if only I could find the program!
L
Nick Cox wrote:
-pnrcheck- from SSC covers the Swedish case.
In this case, look _inside_ the program
for some ideas. String functions are not
the only way. -mod()- is also useful.
The authors of -pnrcheck- are two Italians
and a Welshman, just who you would expect
to be working on Swedish identifiers.
Nick
[email protected]
Lia Orfei
I have a variable that contains 7-digit numbers; the first
digit is the
remainder of the sum of the last six digits divided by 10
(check digit)
example: 1030332 => 0+3+0+3+3+2=11/10=1+1 => check digit=1
12050457 => 0+5+0+4+5+7=21/10=2+1 => check digit=1
and so on.
Now I want to assess whther the check digit is correct for each entry.
How do I calculate the partial sum of the contents of this variable?
Extra challenge: some of the numbers sum up to 10, 20 etc so
the check
digit is actually 0 and it does not appear in the data for
some reason
(example 50456 is correct becasue 5+0+4+5+6=20 so the remainder is 0).
Any ideas?? I was thinking about using the string functions.
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