Lei

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A Legal Entity Identifier, the global ID of a company in financial reporting.

Use it to name a company in regulatory or finance data. For a UK company's own number, use UkCompanyNumber.

Shape

One value, held as text in one set form, with no parts: HWUPKR0MPOU8FGXBT394.

Example

example

Lei("506700GE1G29325QX363")

Lei(raw) checks the text, and text that isn't one breaks the format rule.

text.parse(raw, as: Lei) reads one from text that comes from outside. Text that isn't one at all fails malformed, such as 506700GE1G29325QX364, 506700ge1g29325qx363 or 506700GE1G29325QX3.

Good to know

It is 20 characters in capitals, and it checks its own last two digits.
== tells you whether two are the same. < and list.sort_by don't take it.

In JSON

A string, in a request, a response or json.write:

json

"506700GE1G29325QX363""HWUPKR0MPOU8FGXBT394"

Details

Text form, storage, how it is shown, and operations

Lei is in the group Money and banking, and has been in Jadpo since 0.1.0.

Text form

text.from writes one standard text form, the same form text.parse reads back: 506700GE1G29325QX363 and HWUPKR0MPOU8FGXBT394.

How it is stored

It is stored in one column named for the field, of type text. HWUPKR0MPOU8FGXBT394 is stored as 'HWUPKR0MPOU8FGXBT394'.

How it is shown to people

text.format(value, locale:) shows it to people in their locale.

With locale: Locale.en_gb:

Value	Shown
`506700GE1G29325QX363`	`506700GE1G29325QX363`
`HWUPKR0MPOU8FGXBT394`	`HWUPKR0MPOU8FGXBT394`

Operations

It also takes text.parse, text.from, text.format, json.read, json.write and ==. How every standard type behaves says how they work.

Markdown for agents: /docs/types/type-lei.md.Built from Jadpo main at aee2e8f.