| Re: Zip Codes ctype? Pregmatch? RESOLVED [message #182644 is a reply to message #182640] |
Tue, 20 August 2013 23:53   |
Norman Peelman
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On 08/20/2013 03:06 PM, Twayne wrote:
> As usual, after futzing with a problem for a couple days and end up
> finally finding multiple solutions.
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> Thanks all,
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> Twayne`
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> On 2013-08-20 1:27 PM, Twayne wrote:
>> 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.
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>> 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?
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>> Or know of any functions anywhere that could be modified to be used?
>>
>
I responded even though you SOLVED... at least let us know what your
solution was.
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Norman
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