Challenge #47: Vehicle Identification Number Test

[GeneR]

Happy Halloween loyal weekly exercise participants, here is an exercise I hope does not scare you too much. Hopefully is a treat and not a trick.  The link to last week’s challenge  is HERE.

Use case: An Alteryx subscriber needs to build a process to validate VIN numbers to test for data quality issues across the fleet data. The algorithm is provided at the below wiki link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_identification_number

Objective: Please take the VIN numbers from the Input and create a new column for the check digit. Compare the check digit with the calculated check digit value. If the two values do not match (and there was no error in the calculation), then there is a mistake in the VIN. Out of the six VINs, how many vehicles have invalid codes?

[Joe_Mako]

I took on the challenge of doing this without lookup tables.

Spoiler

Here is my calculation to get the weighted value:

IF [Position]=8 THEN 10 ELSE 9-MOD([Position],10) ENDIF
*
IF IsInteger([Letter]) THEN ToNumber(Letter)
ELSE CharToInt([Letter])-
IF CharToInt([Letter])<=73 THEN 64
ELSEIF CharToInt([Letter])<=82 THEN 73
ELSE 81 ENDIF ENDIF

and then to convert the sum to the check digit:

IF !REGEX_Match([VIN ID], '^[^IOQ]+$')
OR !REGEX_Match([VIN ID], '^[A-Z_0-9]+$')
THEN Null()
ELSEIF Mod([Value],11)=10 THEN 'X'
ELSE ToString(Mod([Value],11)) ENDIF

I think the VIN of "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQ" should come back with a Null because it is invalid as it contains an I,O,Q. I also verify that it is only capital letters and numbers.

[TaraM]

A solution has been posted

Spoiler

[DanielUpton]

Spoiler

near-spoiler alert

This was a great skill-builder exercise for me.  Now, I appreciate the value of parsing a string into (readers' guess: Columns or Rows), in order to allow for all of that SQL-esque stuff.  Good stuff!

[MarqueeCrew]

working on earning a badge ... 

Cheers,

Mark

[SeanAdams]

Great challenge - loved the fact that it required research.

My solution was kind of a hybrid solution (when I compared it afterwards to some of the other solutions)

Spoiler

I used the simple regex to tokenise into rows (like @MarqueeCrew and @Joe_Mako did too) but split it into streams like @TaraM

For anyone who needs the lookup tables they are in the attached flow.

[NicoleJohnson]

My solution. I remember solving this one last year trying to prep for the Grand Prix qualification rounds! But I didn't save my solution... and I didn't know how to use several of the tools I used this time... so no idea how I did it a year ago!

Spoiler

[estherb47]

Added the fun of parsing the lookup tables from the Wiki page (to avoid any typos)

[LordNeilLord]

Not the neatest solution but it works, so I'm satisfied

Spoiler

[jamielaird]

Here's my solution.  I've mostly used formula tools because they suit the way my brain works.  Enjoyed this one lots!

Spoiler