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Re: Zip Codes ctype? Pregmatch?

From Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net>
Newsgroups comp.lang.php
Subject Re: Zip Codes ctype? Pregmatch?
Date 2013-08-25 13:21 -0400
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
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References (2 earlier) <2791655.Q3g5IOY8jz@PointedEars.de> <7964092.hUFTFP9gJ2@PointedEars.de> <9308699.c6ZVUcr4Hi@PointedEars.de> <kva1hr$rc0$1@dont-email.me> <XnsA2276B1042D1Bdougmilmaccom@78.46.70.116>

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On 2013-08-25 10:31 AM, Doug Miller wrote:
> Curtis Dyer <dyer85@gmail.com> wrote in news:kva1hr$rc0$1@dont-email.me:
>
>> Perhaps you might also keep invalid postal codes in an array to look
>> up before utilizing the regular expression.
>
> What happens when new postal codes are added?
>
> Perhaps one might simply send a request to the USPS address validation API to find out if it's
> a valid zip code or not. Use the "City-State Lookup" tool described here:
>
> https://www.usps.com/business/web-tools-apis/address-information.htm
>
> I don't know if Canada Post has similar tools.
>

Someone said there was a CDN API but I haven't gotten to it yet, though 
I have seen it. Haven't tried to programmatically access it yet though; 
want to finish up what I've been doing.

Thanks

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Zip Codes  ctype? Pregmatch? Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2013-08-20 13:27 -0400
  Re: Zip Codes  ctype? Pregmatch? Martin Leese <please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID> - 2013-08-20 11:59 -0600
    Re: Zip Codes  ctype? Pregmatch? Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2013-08-20 15:01 -0400
  Re: Zip Codes  ctype? Pregmatch? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2013-08-20 13:08 -0500
    Re: Zip Codes  ctype? Pregmatch? Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2013-08-20 15:03 -0400
      Re: Zip Codes  ctype? Pregmatch? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2013-08-20 14:36 -0500
        Re: Zip Codes  ctype? Pregmatch? Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2013-08-20 20:17 -0400
  Re: Zip Codes  ctype? Pregmatch? RESOLVED Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2013-08-20 15:06 -0400
    Re: Zip Codes  ctype? Pregmatch? RESOLVED Norman Peelman <npeelman@cfl.rr.com> - 2013-08-20 19:53 -0400
      Re: Zip Codes  ctype? Pregmatch? RESOLVED Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2013-08-20 20:29 -0400
        Re: Zip Codes  ctype? Pregmatch? RESOLVED Moon Elf <moonelf@moonelfsystem.net> - 2013-12-16 10:02 +0000
          Re: Zip Codes  ctype? Pregmatch? RESOLVED Doug Miller <doug_at_milmac_dot_com@example.com> - 2013-12-16 12:27 +0000
  Re: Zip Codes  ctype? Pregmatch? Norman Peelman <npeelman@cfl.rr.com> - 2013-08-20 19:52 -0400
    Re: Zip Codes  ctype? Pregmatch? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-08-21 14:53 +0200
      Re: Zip Codes  ctype? Pregmatch? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-08-21 14:58 +0200
        Re: Zip Codes  ctype? Pregmatch? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-08-21 15:06 +0200
          Re: Zip Codes  ctype? Pregmatch? Curtis Dyer <dyer85@gmail.com> - 2013-08-24 10:22 +0000
            Re: Zip Codes  ctype? Pregmatch? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-08-24 12:52 +0200
            Re: Zip Codes  ctype? Pregmatch? Doug Miller <doug_at_milmac_dot_com@example.com> - 2013-08-25 14:31 +0000
              Re: Zip Codes  ctype? Pregmatch? Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2013-08-25 13:21 -0400
            Re: Zip Codes  ctype? Pregmatch? Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2013-08-25 13:17 -0400
      Re: Zip Codes  ctype? Pregmatch? Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2013-08-21 19:10 -0400
        Re: Zip Codes  ctype? Pregmatch? BootNic <bootnic.bounce@gmail.com> - 2013-08-21 22:09 -0400
          Re: Zip Codes  ctype? Pregmatch? Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2013-08-22 18:22 -0400
  Re: Zip Codes  ctype? Pregmatch? Jeff North <jnorthau@yahoo.com.au> - 2013-08-21 21:25 +1000
    Re: Zip Codes  ctype? Pregmatch? Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2013-08-21 18:53 -0400
      Re: Zip Codes  ctype? Pregmatch? Norman Peelman <npeelman@cfl.rr.com> - 2013-08-21 22:46 -0400
  Re: Zip Codes  ctype? Pregmatch? gordonb.qnlcm@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2013-08-31 01:17 -0500
    Re: Zip Codes  ctype? Pregmatch? Fiver <numeralfive@gmail.com> - 2013-08-31 16:40 +0200
      Re: Zip Codes  ctype? Pregmatch? Norman Peelman <npeelman@cfl.rr.com> - 2013-08-31 11:56 -0400
        Re: Zip Codes  ctype? Pregmatch? Welsh Vanner <welshvanners@welsh-vanners.co.uk> - 2013-08-31 20:23 +0100
        Re: Zip Codes  ctype? Pregmatch? Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2013-08-31 20:21 -0400
      Re: Zip Codes  ctype? Pregmatch? Martin Leese <please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID> - 2013-08-31 09:56 -0600
    Re: Zip Codes  ctype? Pregmatch? Twayne <nobody@spamcop.net> - 2013-08-31 20:07 -0400

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