using System; using System.Collections.Generic; namespace CUSIP { class Program { static bool IsCusip(string s) { if (s.Length != 9) return false; int sum = 0; for (int i = 0; i <= 7; i++) { char c = s[i]; int v; if (c >= '0' && c <= '9') { v = c - 48; } else if (c >= 'A' && c <= 'Z') { v = c - 55; // lower case letters apparently invalid } else if (c == '*') { v = 36; } else if (c == '#') { v = 38; } else { return false; } if (i % 2 == 1) v *= 2; // check if odd as using 0-based indexing sum += v / 10 + v % 10; } return s[8] - 48 == (10 - (sum % 10)) % 10; } static void Main(string[] args) { List candidates = new List() { "037833100", "17275R102", "38259P508", "594918104", "68389X106", "68389X105" }; foreach (var candidate in candidates) { Console.WriteLine("{0} -> {1}", candidate, IsCusip(candidate) ? "correct" : "incorrect"); } } } }