Validating PAN (Indian Format)

[Admin]

Hi All,

Here is a method to validate PAN in Excel. The rules for validation are as follows:


• Length should be 10
• First 5 character should be text [A-Za-z]
• Next 4 should be number
• Last character should be text [A-Za-z]


and the formula will be

=AND(LEN(A1)=10,SUMPRODUCT(--(--(ISNUMBER(MID(A1,{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10},1)+0))={0, 0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0}))+SUMPRODUCT(--(CODE(MID(UPPER(A1),{1,2,3,4,5,10},1))>64))=16)

More solutions are welcome

[Rick Rothstein]

There is always a VB solution, a UDF (user defined function) in this case...


Function IsPAN(S As String) As Boolean
IsPAN = S Like "[A-Za-z][A-Za-z][A-Za-z][A-Za-z][A-Za-z]####[A-Za-z]"
End Function

For those reading this who are unfamiliar with UDFs, they are easy to install and use. To install it, simply press ALT+F11 to go into the VB editor and, once there, click Insert/Module on its menu bar, then copy/paste the above code into the code window that just opened up. That's it.... you are done. You can now use IsPAN just like it was a built-in Excel function. For example,

=IsPAN(A1)

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[Rick Rothstein]

I just noticed that your formula will "false match" these characters...

[\]^_`{|}~

as well as almost all the characters with ASCII (technically, ANSI) values above 126 if they appear anywhere within the first 5 or the 10th character positions. I would note that the UDF that I posted earlier works correctly for these characters.

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[Admin]

@ Rick,

Thanks for checking all the possibilities.

Here is the updated one.

=AND(LEN(A1)=10,SUMPRODUCT(--(--(ISNUMBER(MID(A1,{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10},1)+0))={0, 0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0}))+SUMPRODUCT((CODE(MID(UPPER(A1 ),{1,2,3,4,5,10},1))>64)*(CODE(MID(UPPER(A1),{1,2,3,4,5,10},1))<91))=16)

[Rick Rothstein]

Here is the updated one.

=AND(LEN(A1)=10,SUMPRODUCT(--(--(ISNUMBER(MID(A1,{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10},1)+0))={0, 0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0}))+SUMPRODUCT((CODE(MID(UPPER(A1 ),{1,2,3,4,5,10},1))>64)*(CODE(MID(UPPER(A1),{1,2,3,4,5,10},1))<91))=16)

This slightly shorter formula (using two less function calls) also appears to work...

=AND(LEN(A1)=10,SUMPRODUCT(--(ABS(77.5-(CODE(MID(UPPER(A1),{1,2,3,4,5,10},1))))<13))=6,SUMPRODUCT(--ISNUMBER(--MID(A1,{6,7,8,9},1)))=4)<!-- google_ad_section_end -->

[Haseeb A]

...
=AND(LEN(A1)=10,SUMPRODUCT(--(ABS(77.5-(CODE(MID(UPPER(A1),{1,2,3,4,5,10},1))))<13))=6,SUMPRODUCT(--ISNUMBER(--MID(A1,{6,7,8,9},1)))=4)<!-- google_ad_section_end -->

Rick,

As you know you can shorten 2nd SUMPRODUCT(--ISNUMBER with COUNT,

COUNT(--MID(A1,{6,7,8,9},1))

Another one with less functions,

=AND(COUNT(MID(A1,{6,7,8,9},1)+0)=4,COUNT(FIND(MID (UPPER(A1),{1,2,3,4,5,10},{1,1,1,1,1,999}),"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"))=6)

EDIT:

Using by a tilde "~" could avoid UPPER function,

=AND(COUNT(MID(A1,{6,7,8,9},1)+0)=4,COUNT(SEARCH("~"&MID(A1,{1,2,3,4,5,10},{1,1,1,1,1,999}),"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"))=6)

[in.vaibhav]

Hi

There is one more requirement, 4Th Character should be P for Individulas, C for Company & so on.

So how can we check that & also whether we can give output with error instead of say True or False.

EG. Length should be 10, First 5 character should be text, Next 6-9 character should be number, Last character should be text, 4th character should be either of P,H,F,A,T,B,L,J,G.

Thanks & Regards


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[in.vaibhav]

There is always a VB solution, a UDF (user defined function) in this case...


Function IsPAN(S As String) As Boolean
IsPAN = S Like "[A-Za-z][A-Za-z][A-Za-z][A-Za-z][A-Za-z]####[A-Za-z]"
End Function

For those reading this who are unfamiliar with UDFs, they are easy to install and use. To install it, simply press ALT+F11 to go into the VB editor and, once there, click Insert/Module on its menu bar, then copy/paste the above code into the code window that just opened up. That's it.... you are done. You can now use IsPAN just like it was a built-in Excel function. For example,

=IsPAN(A1)

Hi

There is one more requirement in this UDF, 4Th Character should be P for Individulas, C for Company & so on.

So how can we check that & also whether we can give output with error instead of say True or False.

EG. Length should be 10, First 5 character should be text, Next 6-9 character should be number, Last character should be text, 4th character should be either of P,H,F,A,T,B,L,J,G.

Thanks & Regards

[Rick Rothstein]

Hi

There is one more requirement in this UDF, 4Th Character should be P for Individulas, C for Company & so on.

So how can we check that & also whether we can give output with error instead of say True or False.

EG. Length should be 10, First 5 character should be text, Next 6-9 character should be number, Last character should be text, 4th character should be either of P,H,F,A,T,B,L,J,G.

Thanks & Regards
This should account for the requirement you posted about...

Function IsPAN(S As String) As Boolean
IsPAN = S Like "[A-Za-z][A-Za-z][A-Za-z][ABFGHJLPTabfghjlpt][A-Za-z]####[A-Za-z]"
End Function

[in.vaibhav]

This should account for the requirement you posted about...

Function IsPAN(S As String) As Boolean
IsPAN = S Like "[A-Za-z][A-Za-z][A-Za-z][ABFGHJLPTabfghjlpt][A-Za-z]####[A-Za-z]"
End Function

Hi

I wanted to function like this..


Function ISPAN(inData As String)
Dim i As Integer
Dim Result As String

If Len(inData) <> 10 Then
ISPAN = "Total Character is " & Len(inData)
Exit Function
End If

If Mid(UCase(inData), 1, 1) Like "[A-Z]" Then
r1 = ""
Else
r1 = "Char1 is not Text,"
End If

If Mid(UCase(inData), 2, 1) Like "[A-Z]" Then
r2 = ""
Else
r2 = "Char2 is not Text,"
End If

If Mid(UCase(inData), 3, 1) Like "[A-Z]" Then
r3 = ""
Else
r3 = "Char3 is not Text,"
End If

If Mid(UCase(inData), 4, 1) Like "[P]" Then
r4 = ""
Else
r4 = "Char4 Should be P"
End If

If Mid(UCase(inData), 5, 1) Like "[A-Z]" Then
r5 = ""
Else
r5 = "Char5 is not Text,"
End If

If Mid(UCase(inData), 6, 1) Like "#" Then
r6 = ""
Else
r6 = "Char6 is not Number,"
End If

If Mid(UCase(inData), 7, 1) Like "#" Then
r7 = ""
Else
r7 = "Char7 is not Number,"
End If

If Mid(UCase(inData), 8, 1) Like "#" Then
r8 = ""
Else
r8 = "Char8 is not Number,"
End If

If Mid(UCase(inData), 9, 1) Like "#" Then
r9 = ""
Else
r9 = "Char9 is not Number,"
End If

If Mid(UCase(inData), 10, 1) Like "[A-Z]" Then
r10 = ""
Else
r10 = "Char10 is not Text,"
End If

Result = r1 & r2 & r3 & r4 & r5 & r6 & r7 & r8 & r9 & r10

If Right(Result, 1) = "," Then
Result = Left(Result, Len(Result) - 1)
End If

If Result = "" Then
ISPAN = "OK"
Else
ISPAN = Result
End If
End Function



This works fine but it is very lengthy can we shortn same by looping, I am not expert in VBA ;)

Thanks for all support.


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[Rick Rothstein]

I don't know this is a lot shorter than you were hoping for, but given you wanted complete error reporting, looping does not really help that much. I noticed you only tested the 4th character to be the letter "P" in your code and, since you said your code works fine, I restricted the check of the 4th character to only that letter. Note that I also added a check to see if the argument is too short or too long to be a proper entry. Here is the non-looping code I came up with...

Function IsPAN(S As String) As String
If Len(S) < 10 Then
IsPAN = "Too short!"
ElseIf Len(S) > 10 Then
IsPAN = "Too long!"
Else
If Mid(S, 1, 1) Like "[!A-Za-z]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 1 is not text."
If Mid(S, 2, 1) Like "[!A-Za-z]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 2 is not text."
If Mid(S, 3, 1) Like "[!A-Za-z]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 3 is not text."
If Mid(S, 4, 1) Like "[!Pp]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 4 is not the letter 'P'."
If Mid(S, 5, 1) Like "[!A-Za-z]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 5 is not text."
If Mid(S, 6, 1) Like "[!0-9]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 6 is not a number."
If Mid(S, 7, 1) Like "[!0-9]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 7 is not a number."
If Mid(S, 8, 1) Like "[!0-9]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 8 is not a number."
If Mid(S, 9, 1) Like "[!0-9]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 9 is not a number."
If Mid(S, 10, 1) Like "[!A-Za-z]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 10 is not text."
If Len(IsPAN) Then
IsPAN = Mid(IsPAN, 2)
Else
IsPAN = "OK"
End If
End If
End Function

In case you are interested, here is the same function using loops (among other things)...

Function IsPAN(S As String) As String
Dim X As Long, PatternChar As String, Test As New Collection
Const Pattern As String = "AAAPANNNNA"
If Len(S) < 10 Then
IsPAN = "Too short!"
ElseIf Len(S) > 10 Then
IsPAN = "Too long!"
ElseIf Len(IsPAN) = 0 Then
Test.Add "[A-Za-z]", "A"
Test.Add "[Pp]", "P"
Test.Add "#", "N"
For X = 1 To Len(S)
PatternChar = Test(Mid(Pattern, X, 1))
If Not Mid(S, X, 1) Like PatternChar Then
IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character " & X & " is not " & Choose(InStr("APN", _
Mid(Pattern, X, 1)), "text.", "the letter ""P"".", "a number.")
End If
Next
If Len(IsPAN) Then
IsPAN = Mid(IsPAN, 2)
Else
IsPAN = "OK"
End If
End If
End Function

[Admin]

Hi

Thanks for posting the code. Since this particular forum is dedicated to tips and tricks, please do ask question in Excel Help (http://www.excelfox.com/forum/f2/)

[in.vaibhav]

:cheers:

Thanks. Rilli good piece of work..:cool :

Once again thanks a lot!!!



I don't know this is a lot shorter than you were hoping for, but given you wanted complete error reporting, looping does not really help that much. I noticed you only tested the 4th character to be the letter "P" in your code and, since you said your code works fine, I restricted the check of the 4th character to only that letter. Note that I also added a check to see if the argument is too short or too long to be a proper entry. Here is the non-looping code I came up with...

Function IsPAN(S As String) As String
If Len(S) < 10 Then
IsPAN = "Too short!"
ElseIf Len(S) > 10 Then
IsPAN = "Too long!"
Else
If Mid(S, 1, 1) Like "[!A-Za-z]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 1 is not text."
If Mid(S, 2, 1) Like "[!A-Za-z]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 2 is not text."
If Mid(S, 3, 1) Like "[!A-Za-z]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 3 is not text."
If Mid(S, 4, 1) Like "[!Pp]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 4 is not the letter 'P'."
If Mid(S, 5, 1) Like "[!A-Za-z]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 5 is not text."
If Mid(S, 6, 1) Like "[!0-9]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 6 is not a number."
If Mid(S, 7, 1) Like "[!0-9]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 7 is not a number."
If Mid(S, 8, 1) Like "[!0-9]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 8 is not a number."
If Mid(S, 9, 1) Like "[!0-9]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 9 is not a number."
If Mid(S, 10, 1) Like "[!A-Za-z]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 10 is not text."
If Len(IsPAN) Then
IsPAN = Mid(IsPAN, 2)
Else
IsPAN = "OK"
End If
End If
End Function

In case you are interested, here is the same function using loops (among other things)...

Function IsPAN(S As String) As String
Dim X As Long, PatternChar As String, Test As New Collection
Const Pattern As String = "AAAPANNNNA"
If Len(S) < 10 Then
IsPAN = "Too short!"
ElseIf Len(S) > 10 Then
IsPAN = "Too long!"
ElseIf Len(IsPAN) = 0 Then
Test.Add "[A-Za-z]", "A"
Test.Add "[Pp]", "P"
Test.Add "#", "N"
For X = 1 To Len(S)
PatternChar = Test(Mid(Pattern, X, 1))
If Not Mid(S, X, 1) Like PatternChar Then
IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character " & X & " is not " & Choose(InStr("APN", _
Mid(Pattern, X, 1)), "text.", "the letter ""P"".", "a number.")
End If
Next
If Len(IsPAN) Then
IsPAN = Mid(IsPAN, 2)
Else
IsPAN = "OK"
End If
End If
End Function

[in.vaibhav]

Ok, I agreed Sir.
:)

Rgds


Hi

Thanks for posting the code. Since this particular forum is dedicated to tips and tricks, please do ask question in Excel Help (http://www.excelfox.com/forum/f2/)

[udaysdevadiga@gmail.com]

Hello Sir,

The above formula works fine.

Thanks for the same. Would request you to let us know how to save the same in excel so that every time no need of pasting the above formula again ana again.

Regards,
Uday

[Rick Rothstein]

The above formula works fine.

Thanks for the same. Would request you to let us know how to save the same in excel so that every time no need of pasting the above formula again ana again.

Do you really mean "formula" or are you referring to the VB code? There are 15 prior messages in this thread, some with formulas and some with VB code solutions... what is the number for the message containing the "formula" you are referring to (look for the number on the right side of the title bar for the message)?

[udaysdevadiga@gmail.com]

Hello Sir,

I am talking about the VB code. which is as below given bu you.

Function IsPAN(S As String) As String
If Len(S) < 10 Then
IsPAN = "Too short!"
ElseIf Len(S) > 10 Then
IsPAN = "Too long!"
Else
If Mid(S, 1, 1) Like "[!A-Za-z]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 1 is not text."
If Mid(S, 2, 1) Like "[!A-Za-z]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 2 is not text."
If Mid(S, 3, 1) Like "[!A-Za-z]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 3 is not text."
If Mid(S, 4, 1) Like "[!Pp]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 4 is not the letter 'P'."
If Mid(S, 5, 1) Like "[!A-Za-z]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 5 is not text."
If Mid(S, 6, 1) Like "[!0-9]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 6 is not a number."
If Mid(S, 7, 1) Like "[!0-9]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 7 is not a number."
If Mid(S, 8, 1) Like "[!0-9]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 8 is not a number."
If Mid(S, 9, 1) Like "[!0-9]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 9 is not a number."
If Mid(S, 10, 1) Like "[!A-Za-z]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 10 is not text."
If Len(IsPAN) Then
IsPAN = Mid(IsPAN, 2)
Else
IsPAN = "OK"
End If
End If
End Function

[Rick Rothstein]

Hello Sir,

I am talking about the VB code. which is as below given bu you.

Function IsPAN(S As String) As String
If Len(S) < 10 Then
IsPAN = "Too short!"
ElseIf Len(S) > 10 Then
IsPAN = "Too long!"
Else
If Mid(S, 1, 1) Like "[!A-Za-z]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 1 is not text."
If Mid(S, 2, 1) Like "[!A-Za-z]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 2 is not text."
If Mid(S, 3, 1) Like "[!A-Za-z]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 3 is not text."
If Mid(S, 4, 1) Like "[!Pp]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 4 is not the letter 'P'."
If Mid(S, 5, 1) Like "[!A-Za-z]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 5 is not text."
If Mid(S, 6, 1) Like "[!0-9]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 6 is not a number."
If Mid(S, 7, 1) Like "[!0-9]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 7 is not a number."
If Mid(S, 8, 1) Like "[!0-9]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 8 is not a number."
If Mid(S, 9, 1) Like "[!0-9]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 9 is not a number."
If Mid(S, 10, 1) Like "[!A-Za-z]" Then IsPAN = IsPAN & vbLf & "Character 10 is not text."
If Len(IsPAN) Then
IsPAN = Mid(IsPAN, 2)
Else
IsPAN = "OK"
End If
End If
End Function
Okay, I think the best way to do what I think you want is to create a template. Start a new workbook and put the above code in a module in that new workbook, then use Save As to save the workbook as an Excel Macro Enabled Template (give it a name you will recognize). Now, the next time you start a workbook that needs the PAN functionality, select that template instead of a blank workbook and the function will be in place ready-to-use.

[Chidambaram3983]

Here is the Solution...

=IF(AND(OR(MID(A1,4,1)={"P";"H";"B";"C";"L";"F";"A";"J";"G";"T"}),CODE(UPPER(MID(A1,{1,2,3,4,5},1)))>=65,CODE(UPPER(MID(A1,{1,2,3,4,5},1)))<=90,CODE(LOWER(MID(A1,{10},1)))>=97,CODE(LOWER(MID(A1,{10},1)))<=122,CODE(MID(A1,{6,7,8,9},1))>=49,CODE(MID(A1,{6,7,8,9},1))<=57,LEN(A1)=10),"VALID","INVALID")

[Chidambaram3983]

Hi

There is one more requirement, 4Th Character should be P for Individulas, C for Company & so on.

So how can we check that & also whether we can give output with error instead of say True or False.

EG. Length should be 10, First 5 character should be text, Next 6-9 character should be number, Last character should be text, 4th character should be either of P,H,F,A,T,B,L,J,G.

Thanks & Regards

Try This...

=IF(AND(OR(MID(A1,4,1)={"P";"H";"B";"C";"L";"F";"A";"J";"G";"T"}),CODE(UPPER(MID(A1,{1,2,3,4,5},1)))>=65,CODE(UPPER(MID(A1,{1,2,3,4,5},1)))<=90,CODE(LOWER(MID(A1,{10},1)))>=97,CODE(LOWER(MID(A1,{10},1)))<=122,CODE(MID(A1,{6,7,8,9},1))>=49,CODE(MID(A1,{6,7,8,9},1))<=57,LEN(A1)=10),"VALID","INVALID")

[RoelandVerhoeven]

The formula provided is a valid method to validate PAN in Excel. The formula checks if the length of the PAN is 10, the first 5 characters are text, the next 4 characters are numbers, and the last character is text. The formula is:

=AND(LEN(A1)=10,SUMPRODUCT(--(--(ISNUMBER(MID(A1,{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10},1)+0))={0, 0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0}))+SUMPRODUCT(--(CODE(MID(UPPER(A1),{1,2,3,4,5,10},1))>64))=16)

The formula uses the AND function to check if all the conditions are met. The LEN function checks if the length of the PAN is 10. The SUMPRODUCT function checks if the first 5 characters are text and the next 4 characters are numbers. The CODE function converts the last character to its ASCII code and checks if it is a text character. The formula returns TRUE if all the conditions are met and FALSE otherwise.

I hope this helps!