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Re: st: RE: summing up digits and comparing to a check digit


From   Lia Orfei <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RE: summing up digits and comparing to a check digit
Date   Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:08:08 +0000

I seem to be the only person who came across this problem for the first time...
Thanks for all the contributions, very interesting indeed

Lia

Richard Atkins wrote:


Rather than use the mod function I would recommend converting all your
values to formatted strings using the =string(varname, format) command
prior to extracting the digits.

In general the mod function works well but I have come across datasets
where values that displayed in tables and lists as (for example) 0.7
produced a '6' when I tried to extract the 'tenths' digit using
mod(int(varname*10),10). It turned out that the floating point
representation of this value in the dta file was actually 0.69999999 so
the mod function gave me exactly what I asked for rather than what I
actually wanted.

Some examples of extracting digits in this way are available in my
digit preference functions at
http://www.richardatkins.co.uk/statistics/statabits.htm

Regards

Richard A.
[email protected]



[email protected] 03/15/06 3:04 pm >>>

-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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