Sorry. I didn't account for 0-based indices! This produces the correct result:

#! perl -slw use strict; my @samples = qw[ 4011350000000008 4011350000000016 4011350000000024 4011350000000032 4011350000000040 4011350000000057 4011350000000065 4011350000000073 4011350000000081 4011350000000099 ]; sub luhn { my $total = 0; for my $i ( 0 .. length( $_[0] ) -1 ) { my $d = substr( $_[0], $i, 1 ); unless( $i & 1 ) { $d *= 2; $d -=9 if $d > 9; } $total += $d; } $total *= 9; return substr $total, -1 } for ( @samples ) { print "$_ : ", luhn( substr $_, 0, 15 ); } __END__ C:\test>luhn 4011350000000008 : 8 4011350000000016 : 6 4011350000000024 : 4 4011350000000032 : 2 4011350000000040 : 0 4011350000000057 : 7 4011350000000065 : 5 4011350000000073 : 3 4011350000000081 : 1 4011350000000099 : 9

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In reply to Re^3: Faster Luhn Check Digit Calculation? by BrowserUk
in thread Faster Luhn Check Digit Calculation? by kschwab

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