NAME Business::ID::NIK - Validate Indonesian citizenship registration number (NIK) VERSION version 0.02 SYNOPSIS use Business::ID::NIK; # OO-style my $nik = Business::ID::NIK->new($str); die "Invalid NIK!" unless $nik->validate; print $nik->area_code, "\n"; print $nik->date_of_birth, "\n"; # also, dob() print $nik->gender, "\n"; # M for male, or F for female print $nik->serial, "\n"; # procedural style validate_nik($str) or die "Invalid NIK!"; DESCRIPTION This module can be used to validate Indonesian citizenship registration number, Nomor Induk Kependudukan (NIK), or more popularly known as Nomor Kartu Tanda Penduduk (Nomor KTP), because NIK is displayed on the KTP (citizen identity card). NIK is composed of 16 digits as follow: pp.DDSS.ddmmyy.ssss pp.DDSS is a 6-digit area code where the NIK was registered (it used to be but nowadays not always [citation needed] composed as: pp 2-digit province code, DD 2-digit city/district [kota/kabupaten] code, SS 2-digit subdistrict [kecamatan] code), ddmmyy is date of birth of the citizen (dd will be added by 40 for female), ssss is 4-digit serial starting from 1. METHODS new $str Create a new "Business::ID::NIK" object. validate() Return true if NIK is valid, or false if otherwise. In the case of NIK being invalid, you can call the errstr() method to get a description of the error. errstr() Return validation error of NIK, or undef if no error is found. See "validate()". normalize() Return formatted NIK, or undef if NIK is invalid. pretty() Alias for normalize(). area_code() Return 6-digit province code + city/district + subdistrict component of NIK. date_of_birth() Return a DateTime object containing the date of birth component of the NIK, or undef if NIK is invalid. dob() Alias for day_of_birth() gender() Return gender ('M' for male and 'F' for female), or undef if NIK is invalid. serial() Return 4-digit serial component of NIK, or undef if NIK is invalid. FUNCTIONS validate_nik($string) Return true if NIK is valid, or false if otherwise. If you want to know the error details, you need to use the OO version (see the "errstr" method). Exported by default. BUGS The list of valid province codes in the program might need to be updated from time to time. Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-business-id-nik at rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at . I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes. SUPPORT You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc Business::ID::NIK You can also look for information at: * RT: CPAN's request tracker * AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation * CPAN Ratings * Search CPAN 1; AUTHOR Steven Haryanto COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2010 by Steven Haryanto. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.