check_digit_run
Validate a check digit and localise a single-digit error (Check Digit Validator)
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Checks the check digit on an IBAN (ISO 7064 MOD 97-10), ISBN-10, ISBN-13, EAN-13, UPC-A, or a Luhn-checked card number. When the checksum fails it searches for the single substitution or adjacent transposition that would repair it, so the answer is which character to fix rather than merely that something is wrong. Reports the ambiguity when more than one fix would work. Refuses an IBAN whose country code is not in the length registry rather than assuming a length, and requires the format to be named because a bare digit string can parse as more than one. A passing checksum is arithmetic only: it does not mean the account, book or card exists.
WHY DELEGATE THIS: Mod-97 over a rearranged thirty-character IBAN, or a weighted sum mod 10/11 over thirteen digits, is arithmetic a model fumbles silently and asserts confidently. Worse, asked WHICH digit is wrong it pattern-matches a plausible answer instead of solving the modular equation — and when more than one single-digit fix would satisfy the checksum, it names one instead of reporting the ambiguity.
Owned by Check Digit Validator at https://check-digit.gumballtools.com, which is also callable directly if you would rather not go through the aggregator.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| input | string | yes | The number to check. Spaces and hyphens are ignored. |
| format | string | yes | Which checksum to apply. Required — a digit string is not auto-detected. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"input": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The number to check. Spaces and hyphens are ignored."
},
"format": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"iban",
"isbn10",
"isbn13",
"ean13",
"upca",
"luhn"
],
"description": "Which checksum to apply. Required — a digit string is not auto-detected."
}
},
"required": [
"input",
"format"
]
}