vim:set tw=70; set ft=text; set ai Business::KontoCheck version 2.3 ================================ This module checks the validity of German and Austrian Bank Account Numbers. All currently defined test methods by Deutsche Bundesbank (currently: 00 to C6, September 2007) are implemented. The Österreichische Bundesbank uses a quite different approach. The basic tests are more generic; the concrete tests are described by the hash file, which is sold by First Data Austria, Wien. Specifications may be downloaded from http://www.firstdata.at/de/service/downloads.htm. The original library is a C library; the Perl port was build using the h2xs tool. Due to performance considerations in the C library, this module is not thread safe. But since KontoCheck is *very* fast and it's not a great speed loss, I'll implement a thread safe version in the next major release (planned for this year). If you want support only for german or only for austrian Bank Account Numbers, edit line 15 of Makefile.PL. To use only the german module, use -DINCLUDE_KONTO_CHECK_AT=0, to use only the austrian module, use -DINCLUDE_KONTO_CHECK_DE=0. A longer description and the history file are included as 00liesmich.txt and 0_history.txt (both in german). The C library is available from http://www.informatik.hs-mannheim.de/konto_check DOCUMENTATION The C source code contains the description of each check method. A synopsis and short description of all exported functions is included in the file lib/Business/KontoCheck.pm; this is can be read after installation using the command "perldoc Businesss::KontoCheck". INSTALLATION To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install (you need to be root for the last step) DEPENDENCIES This module requires a C compiler to build the library. COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Copyright (C) 2007 by Michael Plugge This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available (Perl and glue part). The C library is covered by the GNU Lesser General Public License.