Packageardisia.components.barCode.specifications
Classpublic class Ean
InheritanceEan Inheritance Object

See Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Article_Number_(EAN)

Superset of the UPC 12 digit system created in Europe.

Supports EAN-13 and EAN-8. EAN-13 expects a string length 12 to encode and EAN-8 expects a string of length 7 to encode.

Quiet zone not automatically added.


Public Methods
 MethodDefined By
  
encodeForEAN(data:String, EANcode:String = ean13):String
[static] Returns an EAN encoded string.
Ean
Protected Methods
 MethodDefined By
  
getCheckDigit(data:String, EANcode:String):String
[static] Calculates and returns the check digit.
Ean
Method Detail
encodeForEAN()method
public static function encodeForEAN(data:String, EANcode:String = ean13):String

Returns an EAN encoded string.

Parameters

data:String — the string to encode
 
EANcode:String (default = ean13) — "ean8" or "ean13" type encoding; default is "ean13"

Returns
String — a String of encoded data
getCheckDigit()method 
protected static function getCheckDigit(data:String, EANcode:String):String

Calculates and returns the check digit. Assumes that the string has been sanitized.

Parameters

data:String
 
EANcode:String

Returns
String — a String of the check digit




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