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    Validates a South African ID number
  
        
  
    
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  | /** | |
| * Validates a South African ID number | |
| * | |
| * See http://geekswithblogs.net/willemf/archive/2005/10/30/58561.aspx and | |
| * https://www.westerncape.gov.za/general-publication/decoding-your-south-african-id-number-0 | |
| * | |
| * @param id | |
| * @return | |
| */ | |
| public static boolean validId(String id) { | |
| Matcher m = ID_PATTERN.matcher(id); | |
| if(!m.find()) | |
| return false; | |
| int yy = Integer.parseInt(m.group(1)); | |
| int mm = Integer.parseInt(m.group(2)); | |
| int dd = Integer.parseInt(m.group(3)); | |
| int g = Integer.parseInt(m.group(4)); | |
| int s = Integer.parseInt(m.group(5)); | |
| int c = Integer.parseInt(m.group(6)); | |
| int a = Integer.parseInt(m.group(7)); | |
| int z = Integer.parseInt(m.group(8)); | |
| if(mm < 1 || mm > 12 || dd < 1 || dd > 31) return false; | |
| char [] cs = id.toCharArray(); | |
| int s1 = (cs[0] - '0') + (cs[2] - '0') + (cs[4] - '0') + (cs[6] - '0') + (cs[8] - '0') + (cs[10] - '0'); | |
| int s2 = Integer.parseInt("" + cs[1] + cs[3] + cs[5] + cs[7] + cs[9] + cs[11]); | |
| s2 *= 2; | |
| char [] cx = Integer.toString(s2).toCharArray(); | |
| s2 = 0; | |
| for(char cc : cx) | |
| s2 += cc - '0'; | |
| s2 += s1; | |
| String st = Integer.toString(s2); | |
| s2 = st.charAt(st.length() - 1) - '0'; | |
| if(10 - s2 != z) return false; | |
| // System.out.println(yy + "-" + mm + "-" + dd + " " + (g >= 5 ? 'M' : 'F') + " " + s + " " + (c == 0 ? "citizen" : "other") + " " + a + " " + z ); | |
| return true; | |
| } | |
| private static final Pattern ID_PATTERN = Pattern.compile("^(\\d{2})(\\d{2})(\\d{2})(\\d)(\\d{3})([01])(\\d)(\\d)$"); | 
  
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