I agree wholeheartedly with Michael Blasnik's opening caveat--was your
example 12050457 => 0+5+0+4+5+7=21/10=2+1 => check digit=1 supposed to
be 1050457 => 0+5+0+4+5+7=21/10=2+1 => check digit=1 by any chance?
As for his solution, it works well except when digits may be fewer
than 6 digits when turned into strings--I would replace his second
line with
replace x=substr("0000000",1,7-length(x))+x
to pad numbers out to y digits with leading zeros, and then add another line
assert length(x)==7
to make sure there are no odd cases.
. li m x c, noo clean
myvar x check
105059 0105059 0
2459 0002459 0
7102059 7102059 7
On 3/15/06, Michael Blasnik <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm not sure I understand the problem -- one of your examples is an 8 digit
> number but you say you have 7 digit numbers. Anyway, here is some "highly
> advanced programming" (?) :
>
> gen x=string(myvar)
> replace x="0"+x if length(x)==6
> gen
> check=mod(real(substr(x,2,1))+real(substr(x,3,1))+real(substr(x,4,1))+real(substr(x,5,1))+real(substr(x,6,1))+real(substr(x,7,1)),10)
>
> make sure to remove any line break that the email puts in the last line.
*
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
