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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:50:13 -0700
Subject: Re: Number validation issue
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Morten Engvoldsen
<mortenengv@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> Just to make it more clear: I am looking for how to generate the weight in :
> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7..  format for any
> length of number instead of
>
> weights = [5, 4, 3, 2, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1]
>
> only for fixed digit.
>
> My below code can check only for 9 digit, so if we provide a number of more
> than 9 digit, it is not able to check that number. Hope, this makes clear
> what i am looking for...

It sounds like you probably should generate the list of weights at
run-time rather than hard-coding it as a literal.  Have you tried
this?