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authorcjep <cjep@pkgsrc.org>2004-01-11 13:13:34 +0000
committercjep <cjep@pkgsrc.org>2004-01-11 13:13:34 +0000
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diff --git a/misc/p5-Business-CreditCard/DESCR b/misc/p5-Business-CreditCard/DESCR
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+++ b/misc/p5-Business-CreditCard/DESCR
@@ -14,14 +14,7 @@ of the card given the preceding digits. With a 16-digit card, you
provide the first 15 digits; the subroutine returns the sixteenth.
This module does not tell you whether the number is on an actual card,
-only whether it might conceivably be on a real card. To verify whether
-a card is real, or whether it's been stolen, or what its balance is, you
-need a Merchant ID, which gives you access to credit card databases.
-The Perl Journal (http://work.media.mit.edu/tpj) has a Merchant ID so
-that I can accept MasterCard and VISA payments; it comes with the little
-pushbutton/slide-your-card-through device you've seen in restaurants and
-stores. That device calculates the checksum for you, so I don't
-actually use this module.
+only whether it might conceivably be on a real card.
These subroutines will also work if you provide the arguments as numbers
instead of strings, e.g. validate(5276440065421319).