| Re: Zip Codes ctype? Pregmatch? [message #182654 is a reply to message #182651] |
Thu, 22 August 2013 02:46   |
Norman Peelman
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On 08/21/2013 06:53 PM, Twayne wrote:
> On 2013-08-21 7:25 AM, Jeff North wrote:
>> On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 13:27:50 -0400, in comp.lang.php Twayne
>> <nobody(at)spamcop(dot)net>
>> <kv08v0$614$1(at)speranza(dot)aioe(dot)org> wrote:
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>>> | Hi all,
>>> |
>>> | I'm attempting to check for US and Canadian zip codes (postal codes).
>>> | The US is easy; mostly just be sure it's five numerics and except
>>> | "00000" and "99999". But Canadian is a different story because:
>>> | It consists of alternating alpha and numeric characters
>>> (AnAnAn) but
>>> | not the entire alphabet. 8 N.A. English letters are not used, as in
>>> | DFIOQUW AND Z or put another way, they only use 18 letters in their
>>> | postal codes.
>>> | I haven't see a single example in all my research to check if the
>>> | 1st, 3rd, and 5th characters are alpha and th 2nd, 4th and 6th
>>> | characters are numeric.
>>> |
>>> | I've tried preg_match and strpos without succees, likely due to my own
>>> | weakness with preg_match, and regex creates an incredibly long
>>> statement
>>> | I'm sure it's not right to put upon the servers; they slow down
>>> even my
>>> | local server XAMPP & PHP 5.3 on win 7.
>>> |
>>> | Might anyone have a better method?
>>> |
>>> | Or know of any functions anywhere that could be modified to be used?
>>
>> Try this (I found it on the web but can't remember where) and I
>> haven't tired it out:
>> ^[ABCEGHJ-NPRSTVXY]{1}\d{1}[A-Z]{1}\s?\d{1}[A-Z]{1}\d{1}$
>>
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> lol! I'll be happy to check it out! :) I never did get my own to work,
> and that's a bit different from what I used.
>
> Twayne`
I'd say it's a bit different... it doesn't match the rules as given.
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Norman
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