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  • 1.  SIN (Canadian SSN) Validation Pattern

    Posted Oct 03, 2012 12:00 PM

    Running 10.0.0-7

    Does a regular expression exist to validate a SIN (Canadian SSN) in content filtering?
    There's not much point in using the basic regex as they block anything from 111-111-111 to 999-999-999 with zero validation.


    I see a US SSN (Premium) pattern exists but not Canadian.

    Here are some rules on SIN validation and a full perl example:

    http://www.ryerson.ca/JavaScript/lectures/forms/textValidation/sinProject.html

    http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/MANWAR/Algorithm-SIN-0.08/lib/Algorithm/SIN.pm


    Thanks



  • 2.  RE: SIN (Canadian SSN) Validation Pattern

    Posted Oct 03, 2012 02:01 PM

    Hello,

    There's no pattern for Canada SIN by default but you can create your own pattern also.

    I found a regex like this maybe this can help you to validate.

     

    \b[1-9]\d{2}[- ]?\d{3}[- ]?\d{3}\b

     

     



  • 3.  RE: SIN (Canadian SSN) Validation Pattern

    Posted Oct 03, 2012 02:16 PM

    Hi,

    Thanks, there actually is one by default. It works but has zero validation.
    The dictionnary isn't an option either as the text used in it could be legitimate in my case, just that normally it wouldn't contain any SIN info.

     



    Thanks