Hi,

Thanks for the feedback.

 I've made most of the suggested changes and will check in the code shortly.  A 
lot of your suggestions also apply to the existing mx validators.

> public static const: ERROR_CODE_WRONG_FORMAT:String = "wrongFormat";
Changed but you might want to note that the existing mx validators have these 
hard coded.

>> Could this condition not be determined before getting to the start of the 
>> loop (inner loop)
It was needed to be in the loop so that any formatting errors can be caught and 
displayed.

> DECIMAL_DIGITS.indexOf(char) == -1
Again existing mx validators are written in this style but I like the 
suggestion as it makes for more readable code.

It would probably make sense to move these methods up to the base class at some 
point.

> combining the above two suggestions I can then glance at the 
> validatingPostcode function and see quite quickly that it:
> 
> for each format
>     validates each character in the postcode
>     holds the error
> converts the errors to results

I've made it close to that.

> There seems to be the opportunity to reduce the code here, as its seems to be 
> 3 very similar blocks of code, could you extract this somewhere else and pass 
> in the differences ?
Perhaps but I left it as it is. IMO changing actually adds more code and 
doesn't really make it any easier to understand.

> private function getPreferredError():Object
> {
>     errors.sortOn(ERROR_COUNT_FIELD, Array.NUMERIC);
>     return errors[0];
> }
Again IMO replacing a one line of code with a function call (even a descriptive 
one) doesn't make the code any more or less understandable.

> note: not that important, but also noticed a very minor inconsistency in the 
> naming convention of the error type vs the errorCode and errorMessage.
Again just based on what existing mx validators had. :-)

Thanks,
Justin

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