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Thread: Method for Cedit card check, help!!!!1

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    Default Method for Cedit card check, help!!!!1

    2. Write a program to determine whether an input credit number is valid according to the Luhn check. Prompt the user for a credit card number as a long integer and display whether the number is valid.

    Need help creating a method for this process, im unsure how to check a set of long numbers and iterate the steps. Please help me with.........

    The Luhn check is performed as follows:



    Step 1: Double every second digit from the right to the left. If doubling of a digit results in a two-digit number, add up the two digits to get a single-digit number.

    Step 2: Now add all single-digit numbers from Step 1.

    Step 3: Add all the digits in the odd places from right to left in the card number.

    Step 4: Sum the results from Step 2 and Step 3.

    Step 5: If the result from Step 4 is divisible by 10, the card number is valid; otherwise it is invalid.


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    Default Re: Method for Cedit card check, help!!!!1

    What exactly do you need help with (what have you done)?

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    Default Re: Method for Cedit card check, help!!!!1

    I take it this is an assignment, however if its not, how about Validator - Commons Validator

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    Im stuck on how to create methods for the sumofodd/even places method. What i have is below....

    import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
    import java.util.Scanner;
     
    public class CreditCard{
    public static void main(String [] args){
     
    Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
     
    System.out.println("Enter your credit card number: ");
    long number = input.nextLong();
     
    System.out.println("Your credit card number is: " + number);
     
    if (isValid(number)){
    	System.out.println("The credit card number\n " + number + " is a valid");
    }
    else
    	System.out.println("The credit card is not valid");		
    }
    public static boolean isValid(long number){
    	long sumOdd = sumOddPlaces (number);
    	long sumEven = sumEvenPlaces (number);
     
    	if(sumOdd + sumEven % 10 == 0){
    		return true;
    	}
    	else{
    		return false;
    }
    }
     
    public static int getDigit(int number){
    	if(number < 10)
    		return number;
     
    	else{
    	int d2 = number % 10;
    	int d1 = number / 10;
     
    	return d2 + d1;
    	}
     
    public static int sumOfEvenPlaces(long number){
       String str_prime = (new Integer(number)).toString();
       int lastIndex = str_prime.length()-1;
       	for (i =0; i <= lastIndex - 2; i--){
    			if(   ) 
     
     
    }
     
     
    public static in sumOfOddPlaces(long number){

    Here are the two methods i need names i need to make......

    // Get the result from Step 2
     
          public static int sumOfEvenPlace(long number)
     
     // Return the sum of the odd place digits in number
     
          public static int sumOfOddPlace(long number)
    Last edited by helloworld922; October 26th, 2009 at 03:15 PM.

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    Default Re: Method for Cedit card check, help!!!!1

    My first question would be, can a credit card number start with a zero?

    If so, you need to capture it as a string rather than a long.

    Second of all I'd suggest you use a string anyway and loop through each caracter and extract ever odd one and sum them up.

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    can you show me an example my professor has not covered that material yet...

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    Default Re: Method for Cedit card check, help!!!!1

    Here's one way to see if a number is even or odd.

    if (n % 2 == 0)
      // n is even
    else
      // in is odd

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