wish: postal code support

[markstos]

I'm interested in getting the "postal code" broken out into its own string. I realize they vary around the world, but there is already some region-specific code in there with the "EN" parser.

While postal code formats vary some around the world, it is fairly common that they are present in address strings.

Thanks,

[dominicbarnes]

+1

[DamonOehlman]

I've made a start on this, so if you can hit me with some sample addresses (including zip code) for writing some tests that would be awesome.

Ideally, I'm after a set of addresses that show the various different zip codes that are implemented in the US. From a quick read of the stack overflow question and answer below, I can see there are a few different variations used across the US so it would be good to capture each of those:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2577236/regex-for-zip-code

[markstos]

Thanks.

There is an open source postal code regex project here in ::zip :

http://search.cpan.org/~abigail/Regexp-Common-2013031301/

You can also follow the Browse link and look in ./t/zip/

...for tests.

In the US, a zipcode must be exactly 5 digits or 5 a dash and exactly 4
more digits.

On Wednesday, April 16, 2014, Damon Oehlman [email protected]
wrote:

I've made a start on this, so if you can hit me with some sample addresses
(including zip code) for writing some tests that would be awesome.

Ideally, I'm after a set of addresses that show the various different zip
codes that are implemented in the US. From a quick read of the stack
overflow question and answer below, I can see there are a few different
variations used across the US so it would be good to capture each of those:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2577236/regex-for-zip-code

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[DamonOehlman]

@markstos Sweet thanks :)

[markstos]

To specifically answer your question about US postal codes. There are only two valid formats:

5 digits and 5 digits followed a dash and then 4 more digits.

Some of the 5 digit zipcodes start with a leading zero. Sometimes when these get run through a spreadsheet import/export, the leading zeros get lost. No one ever writes one this way, but I've seen it happen when computers process them. So be clear, while it's a zipcode is 5 digits, it should be treated as a string, not a number, which might cause the leading zero to disappear.