Hi,
A larger version of this idea exists in the iso-codes package, with
the iso-code subdivision
codes for all countries, see /usr/share/xml/iso-codes/iso_3166-2.xml
For each US state it has the 2nd-level code , so US-MI is Michigan,
for example.
Similar 2nd-level codes exist for each cou
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 04:26:55AM +, Ron Johnson wrote:
The USPS doesn't care about entry into the union. It cares about
collating and routing.
This is true. Until sometime in the twentieth century, states were
addressed with more verbose abbreviations (Tex. or Penn., for example),
so
Two data points for the discussion:
(1) The data, and more useful data, is available in iso-codes.
The iso-codes-3166-2 list contains the subdivision lists for not just
the US but all countries.
(In the US, its states, in the Ireland counties, German Lander, etc.),
and their translations.
(
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 04:26:55AM +, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 11/17/07 20:33, Roberto C. S�nchez wrote:
> >>
> > That got me thinking. I figure that since MI -> Michigan, it meant that
> > MI was the first state to start with those letters. Logically, I would
> > think, always use the first t
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On 11/17/07 20:33, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 06:51:03PM +, Matt Brown wrote:
>> On 11/17/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This Perl module provides methods allowing United States' two-letter
state ident
I demand that Ron Johnson may or may not have written...
[snip]
> What would be much more useful (still simple, but with much more
> data) is a world-wide hash table of countries and states/provinces.
Are you equating states with provinces there? If so, think again... :-)
[snip]
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| Darren Sal
On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 06:51:03PM +, Matt Brown wrote:
> On 11/17/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > This Perl module provides methods allowing United States' two-letter
> > > state identification parsing from state code to state name and vice
> > > versa.
> >
> > Is a package re
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On 11/17/07 18:51, Matt Brown wrote:
> On 11/17/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> This Perl module provides methods allowing United States' two-letter
>>> state identification parsing from state code to state name and vice
>>> versa.
>> Is
On 11/17/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > This Perl module provides methods allowing United States' two-letter
> > state identification parsing from state code to state name and vice
> > versa.
>
> Is a package really needed for something this simple?
It might be obvious to a US nati
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On 11/17/07 09:56, Ernesto Hernandez-Novich wrote:
> Package: wnpp
>
> * Package name: liblocale-us-perl
> Version: 1.02
> Upstream Author: T. M. Brannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> * URL: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Locale-US/
> * License: GPL or Perl
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* Package name: liblocale-us-perl
Version: 1.02
Upstream Author: T. M. Brannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Locale-US/
* License: GPL or Perl Artistic
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This Perl module provides methods allowing United States' two-letter
state identificatio
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