I agree with Peter_in_2780 that you should separate the matching of the number and the validation calculation. Just create two methods, one where you check the format and the other to calculate and validate the check digit. You didn't specify any variants of the text you want to match, so I just guessed what it could look like. For the actual regular expression you could do like this:

Input: TFN '123456782'
Regex: ^TFN\s*(')?(?\d{3}\s*\d{3}\s*\d{3})(')?\s*$

It will get these variants:

TFN '123456782'
TFN'123 456 782'
TFN123456782
TFN 123 456 782

Explanation:

^ Start of the string
$ End of the string
\s* Consumes 0 or more white space characters. It will make sure you match TFN123 and TFN 123
(')? Optional quotation mark
(? ...) Named group, makes it easier to extract the actual number

If necessary, you will have to remove the spaces in a second step. Hope it helps.

Your question is not very clear, but I assume you want to create an XElement that when written to a file will look like this

    Event Status

This is one way to do it.

XNamespace ns = "should probably be the XSD namespace";

XElement documentation = new XElement(ns + "documentation");
documentation.SetValue("Event Status");

XElement annotation = new XElement(ns + "annotation");
annotation.Add(documentation);

XElement eventStatus = new XElement(ns + "element");
eventStatus.SetAttributeValue(XName.Get("name"), "EventStatus");
eventStatus.SetAttributeValue(XName.Get("type"), "xsd:string");
eventStatus.Add(annotation);

XElement root = new XElement("root", new XAttribute(XNamespace.Xmlns + "xsd", ns));
root.Add(eventStatus);

string s = root.ToString(); // Just a debug test line

I guess you can do something like this: First create your own type.

Then use it for your elements, head, body and foot

I had no idea. I must start to write more scripts then. ;P

Here in the Philippines it is actually even more "exciting", because they mix both metric and the US system. In some stores you by a cable by the yard and in others by the meter. My favourite is the paper sizes. The following are commonly used:

Short (Letter)
A4
Long (Folio)
Legal
A3

Both me and my printer are confused. And as an oddity, McDonald's is the better option because the major competitors are Jollybee and Wendy's. Must be unique in the world that McDonald's is the preferred choice. ;P

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And apologies to those offended by non-SI units. 3x10^8m/s just seems like a boring number.

You can write it 300 000 km/s, that's one of the beauties with the metric unit. (Try to go from yards to miles. :))

A good debugger would be nice too.

Most definitely. Google should fix this issue. Meanwhile you can dump your code in the Q&A forum and demand that someone translates it for you. ;P It has happened before.

The book I used once upon a time was in Swedish, so it wouldn't help you. There are plenty of sites out there and this is just one example: C++ Language - C++ Tutorials[^]

I have a confession to make. Julia wasn't on my radar. :-O

Actually she is. :-D I can still bring out the old photo at times when she is grumpy. And girls get grumpy for all kinds of reasons unknown to man. ;P

Haha I once made a look alike comparison with Grumpy Cat and my girlfriend. I thought it was spot on, but she didn't appreciate it all that much. :-D

Could work. And maybe it is cuddly as well as ugly.

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So, it seems she is replacing one code generating tool for another! Laugh | :laugh: One that doesn't talk back

A slippery slope you have been pushed out on. ;)

Doesn't Oracle own MySQL these days?

Haha. Not a good thing to do if your girlfriend is sneaking up on you either. That kind of trouble I can live without.

Maybe if you could carry the knowledge you have now with you. But I was more thinking of the money, though. Would be nice with a pile of cash to lean back on.

Well, they have read our mails and documents for years, so why not voice recording too.

I'm very sure no one else has used my computer, but it might, as you say, have been bundled with something else. I didn't install anything new the last few days, though. But how do you configure the filter level with OpenDNS? Different DNS server addresses or a configuration page somewhere? I didn't dig into it as I don't want it.

At least one honest guy around. :)