Rails - May 2006 - [Globalize] Enhancement - zip code regexes for each country

Was just playing around with trying to sort out validation of zip/postcodes
depending on what country the user lived in, and was wondering if anyone has
done this in a nice way? Seems to me that it would be a relatively simple
addition to Globalize to add a regex for zip code validation to the things
already in there?

Or am I missing a trick?
Thanks
geoff
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Depends on what you want.

For example Dutch postal code must adhere to the regular expression 
/^\d\d\d\d [A-Z][A-Z]$/, but it is common to accept "1000aa" (no
space,
lowercase). While the latter is not valid, it can be trivially 
transformed into a valid postal code.

This is not the case for the insane English postal code regular 
expression:     
/^([A-PR-UWYZ]\d\d?\d[ABD-HJLNP-UW-Z]{2}|[A-PR-UWYZ][A-HK-Y]\d\d?\d[ABD-HJLNP-UW-Z]{2}|[A-PR-UWYZ]\d[A-HJKSTUW]\d[ABD-HJLNP-UW-Z]{2}|[A-PR-UWYZ][A-HK-Y]\d[A-HJKRSTUW]\d[ABD-HJLNP-UW-Z]{2}|GIR0AA)$/

You can find more on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_code
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_postcodes
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcodereeksen (Dutch)

Regards,
     Erik.



Geoff Hopson schreef:
> Was just playing around with trying to sort out validation of 
> zip/postcodes depending on what country the user lived in, and was 
> wondering if anyone has done this in a nice way? Seems to me that it 
> would be a relatively simple addition to Globalize to add a regex for 
> zip code validation to the things already in there?
>
> Or am I missing a trick?
> Thanks
> geoff
>
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