Yeh this is.... something of a foolish rant (it sounds like he's taken personal affront to the original post). He's getting hung up on validating everything wh

Yeh this is.... something of a foolish rant (it sounds like he's taken personal affront to the original post). He's getting hung up on validating everything when, really, the sensible thing to do is minimum viable validation and leave it at that. Contrary to popular belief credit card companies will handle all sorts of not-quite-right data :)