@ISA = qw( Exporter );
-$VERSION = "0.37_01";
+$VERSION = "0.39_01";
@EXPORT = qw( cardtype validate generate_last_digit );
@EXPORT_OK = qw( receipt_cardtype validate_card );
=head1 SYNOPSIS
+ ##
+ # new-style, supported since 0.36 released Jun 14 2016
+ ##
+
+ use Business::CreditCard qw( 0.36 :NEW );
+
+ print validate_card("5276 4400 6542 1319");
+ print cardtype("5276 4400 6542 1319");
+
+
+ ##
+ # old interface, deprecated but still supported for backwards compatibility
+ ##
+
use Business::CreditCard;
print validate("5276 4400 6542 1319");
print cardtype("5276 4400 6542 1319");
- print generate_last_digit("5276 4400 6542 131");
+
Business::CreditCard is available at a CPAN site near you.
self-consistent -- whether the last digit of the number is a valid
checksum for the preceding digits.
-The validate() subroutine returns 1 if the card number provided passes
+The validate_card() subroutine returns 1 if the card number provided passes
the checksum test, and 0 otherwise.
The cardtype() subroutine returns a string containing the type of
Versions before 0.31 may also have returned "Diner's Club/Carte Blanche" (these
cards are now recognized as "Discover card").
-As of 0.30, cardtype() will accept a partial card masked with "x", "X', ".",
+cardtype() will accept a partial card masked with "x", "X", ".",
"*" or "_". Only the first 2-6 digits and the length are significant;
whitespace and dashes are removed. With two digits, Visa, MasterCard, Discover
and Amex are recognized (versions before 0.36 needed four digits to recognize
charges, you need a Merchant account. See L<Business::OnlinePayment>.
These subroutines will also work if you provide the arguments
-as numbers instead of strings, e.g. C<validate(5276440065421319)>.
+as numbers instead of strings, e.g. C<validate_card(5276440065421319)>.
=head1 PROCESSING AGREEMENTS
Copyright (C) 1995,1996,1997 Jon Orwant
Copyright (C) 2001-2006 Ivan Kohler
-Copyright (C) 2007-2016 Freeside Internet Services, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2007-2021 Freeside Internet Services, Inc.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or,
use Business::CreditCard qw( validate_card cardtype receipt_cardtype );
-Second (we're at now now):
+Second:
Waiting for 0.36+ to become more prevalent.
-Third:
+Third (we're at now now):
Recommend new-style usage. Maybe asking for a specific minimum version turns
it on too?
This is the part that will break things and we probably won't do for a long
time, until new-style usage is the norm and the tradeoff of breaking old code
-is worth it to stop or namespace pollution. Maybe do a 1.00 release with the
+is worth it to stop our namespace pollution. Maybe do a 1.00 release with the
current API and 2.00 is when this happens (with a 1.99_01 pre-release)?
=head1 SEE ALSO