aye. thanks for the info :-)
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From: "pan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2000 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: UPS CHECK DIGIT -Pan
>
> From: Sean Renet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
>
> > I went through there myups account and coundn't find anything useful.
That
> > is why I posted here to see if anyone could think of anything faster
than
> > what I came up with.
> >
>
> I understood what you were looking for; what you listed didn't look
familiar
> so I offered what I knew of as the MOD 10 check digit algorithm. I
mentioned
> the UPS third party developer tools because it seemed that you were
writing
> a cf app that could take advantage of all that UPS has already prepared.
> You know - not reinventing the wheel and all that. I didn't mean to lead
you
> astray. I still think it would be worthwhile for you to do a more detailed
> checkout of the UPS tools. With that thought in mind here is this ...
>
> After logging in to your myUPS account you go to OnLine Tools
> and read the tech faqs - you want to end up with a url like
>
> http://www.ups.com/ecommerce/techdocs/e5c1%5fwelcome.html
> and
> http://www.ups.com/ecommerce/techdocs/e5c7%5ftrackdata.html
>
> That's part of the tech documentation for using the
> datastreaming or inline html tools. There is a *lot* of info there.
> If you try to go there direct you'll get the log-in page.
>
> It was clear to me that it is possible to connect to their validation
> cgi from a cf template just from those two pages listed above.
>
> I got to the tools through my myUPS account but you can go directly to
> the 3rd party tool section with
>
> http://www.ec.ups.com/ecommerce/gettools/gtools_intro.html
> http://www.ec.ups.com/ecommerce/gettools/gtools_e2_thrdpty_lic.html
>
>
> > Where did you get your examples from? The manual I am reading is
completely
> > contrary to what you provided.
> >
> > What I have is
> > 1)sum all the odds
> > 2)sum all the evens and multiply by 2
> > 3)add results of 1) and 2) together
> > 4) subtract 3) from the next multiple of 10
> > 5 The remainder of 4 is your checkdigit.
> >
> > Is yours just a different spin on this? Or am I reading some manual
from
> > the 20's?
> >
>
> The one I wrote is the UPC-A version. It's what I've always known as the
> MOD 10 check digit alogorithm. It's applied by maxicode to their
> barcode products, it's the mod 10 used for cc and chk validations
> and I am fairly sure it is the one used by UPS.
>
> Here is a random sample of web pages that mention the MOD 10 check
> digit algorithm.
>
> http://www.windat.org/rkives/clippings/9601/art4.htm
> http://www.loftware.com/support/knowledgebase/0009240.htm
> http://hypertising.com/DnDCGI/cd/scripts/perlshop/perlshop.txt
> http://www.faqts.com/knowledge-base/view.phtml/aid/3103/fid/330/lang
>
> Hope all that is helpful.
>
> Pan
>
>
>
>
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