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This forum will contian tips from the India IDEA Data Analysis Software Users Group. If you are interested in joining them you can find them on google groups at http://groups.google.com/group/idea-data-analysis-software-users---india

Testing the Validity of the PAN No - Part 2

Hello Group Members,
 
Continuing from Part 1 of the discussion post yesterday to test the validity of the PAN Number we look at testing the first 5 digits of the PAN for occurrence of any number or special character in the first 5 digits. As we mentioned in Part 1 below the first 5 digits of the PAN must necessarily be only character - letter representations.

Testing the validity of the PAN Number - Part 1

Hello Group Members,
 
We look at a series of posts on testing the validity of the Income Tax Unique Registration Number - Permanent Account Number (PAN) in India using IDEA.
 
The length of the PAN is 10 digits and it is an alphanumeric combination.

Did You Find The Hidden Character You Were Looking For using IDEA !

Hello Group Members,
 
There are two ways to look for any text of your choice in a Character Field. 
 
Let us say you would like to check for employees visiting prohibited internet websites during work hours using the Office internet.

Appending a field Month to an IDEA Database

Hello Group Members,
 
Many a times we are required to append a field ‘Month’ to an IDEA database so as to perform month based Analytics on the underlying data.
 
As an example - we append a field ‘Month’ to a Logistics data file to arrive at the Count and Value of Revenue Ea
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