Datatypes

Brazilian vehicle registration plate

ID br_vehicle_plate

DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft

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Registration number on the plate of a vehicle in Brazil, issued by the state DETRANs. The national format used from 1990 has three letters and four digits, written ABC-1234 or ABC·1234, and is still valid. The Mercosur format introduced in 2018 has seven characters in the order letter, letter, letter, digit, letter, digit, digit; converted plates replace the second digit with a letter, 0 by A to 9 by J.

Categories
Transportation
Countries
Brazil
Languages
Common to most languages
Quality
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Regular expression

^[A-Z]{3}(?:[-·• ]?\d{4}|\d[A-Z]\d{2})$

Python re syntax.

Examples

ValueDescription
ABC1C34Mercosur form of ABC1234, the conversion example of CONTRAN
ABC-1234Example of the 1990 format
ABC12D3 invalidA letter in the wrong position

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