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The command below checks if the specified creditcard number is syntactically valid. This code does __not__ check if there is actually creditcard with this number. Only that the number in itself is well-formed according to the rules of the creditcard companies. See the comments preceding the code for a list of the rules.

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# isluhn --
#   Checks whether a given number is a valid credit card number
# Mod 10 Rules					  
# The rules for a Mod 10 check: 			  
# The credit card number must be between 13 and 16 digits. 
#   The credit card number must start with: 	  
# 	  4 for Visa Cards 			  
# 	  37 for American Express Cards 		  
# 	  5 for MasterCards 			  
# 	  6 for Discover Cards 			  
#   If the credit card number is less then 16 digits add zeros to
#   the beginning to make it 16 digits.		  
#   Multiply each digit of the credit card number by the
#   corresponding digit of the mask, and sum the results together.
#   Once all the results are summed divide by 10, if there is no
#   remainder then the credit card number is valid.
# For a card with an even number of digits, double every odd numbered digit
# and substract 9 if the product is greater than 9. Add up all the even
# digits as well as the doubled odd digits, and the result must be a
# multiple of 10 or it's not a valid card. If a card has an odd number of
# digits, perform the same addition, doubling the even numbered digits
# instead...
# Arguments:
#   num		card num to check
# Results:
#   Returns 0/1
#
proc isluhn {cardnum} {
    regsub -all {[^0-9]} $cardnum {} cardnum
    #set cardnum [format %.16d $cardnum]
    set len [string length $cardnum]
    if {$len < 13 || $len > 16} { return 0 }
    set i -1
    set double [expr {!($len%2)}]
    set chksum 0
    while {[incr i]<$len} {
	set c [string index $cardnum $i]
	if {$double} {if {[incr c $c] >= 10} {incr c -9}}
	incr chksum $c
	set double [expr {!$double}]
    }
    return [expr {($chksum%10)==0}]
}

1 comment

Patrick Seguin 19 years, 10 months ago  # | flag

Variation with example.

Basically the same with the addin of the card type return value and an example at the bottom

proc isCreditCardValid {cardnum type} {

upvar $type cardtype

regsub -all {[^0-9]} $cardnum {} cardnum

set len [string length $cardnum]

if {$len

Basically the same with the addin of the card type return value and an example at the bottom

proc isCreditCardValid {cardnum type} {

upvar $type cardtype

regsub -all {[^0-9]} $cardnum {} cardnum

set len [string length $cardnum]

if {$len
Created by andreas kupries on Thu, 22 Aug 2002 (MIT)
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