Validating PAN (Indian Format)

**Admin** · 05-14-2012, 04:01 PM

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** · 05-14-2012, 08:07 PM

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

Code:

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

**Rick Rothstein** · 05-14-2012, 09:05 PM

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.

**Admin** · 05-14-2012, 09:29 PM

@ 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** · 05-14-2012, 10:44 PM

Originally Posted by Admin

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)

**Haseeb A** · 05-27-2012, 11:20 AM

Originally Posted by Rick Rothstein

...
=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)

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** · 10-16-2012, 06:45 PM

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** · 10-16-2012, 07:52 PM

Originally Posted by Rick Rothstein

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

Code:

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** · 10-17-2012, 05:16 AM

Originally Posted by in.vaibhav

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...

Code:

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** · 10-17-2012, 12:38 PM

Originally Posted by Rick Rothstein

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

Code:

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..

Code:

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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