If you're looking for PHP code, then I've done some work for a long-dormant
project:
http://code.google.com/p/txtckr/source/browse/trunk/mvc/components/identifiers
HTH,
Tom
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Kozlowski,Brendon <bkozlowski_at_sals.edu>wrote:
> Hi all.
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> I'm somewhat surprised that I've never had to validate an ISBN manually up
> until now. I suppose that's a testiment to all of the software out there.
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> However, I now find that I need to validate both the 10-digit and 13-digit
> ISBNs. I realize there's also a check digit and a REGEX cannot check this
> value - one step at a time. Right now I just want to work on the REGEX.
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> Does anyone know the exact specifications of both forms of an ISBN? The
> ISBN organization's website didn't seem to be overly clear to me.
> Alternatively, if anyone has a full working regular expression for this
> purpose I would definitely not mind if they'd be willing to share.
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> The only thing I'm doing which is abnormal is that I am not requiring the
> hyphenation or spaces between numbers since some of this data will be coming
> from a system, and some will be coming from human input.
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> Brendon Kozlowski
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Received on Mon Oct 24 2011 - 16:44:01 EDT