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RE: US Zip codes


This is program defined file you are dealing with in the concatenated city state with no rules.

Zip code is not good for taxing jurisdictions either. There is a statistic out there some place that says this is a real NO NO

At 10:45 PM 10/4/2003 -0500, Booth Martin wrote:
Its not a stupid question at all.



The application was installed prior to 1983.  For whatever reason they made
city & state one field.  Zip code is accurate, but the city & state have no
pattern.  State is quite often 2 letters, but just as often its the old
abbreviations, or spelled out completely.  This is one of those delicate
matters of balance.  Where does one stop in modifying code this old?  For
example these are program described files.  Modifying a file is a major
undertaking.







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-------Original Message-------



From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion

Date: Saturday, October 04, 2003 21:26:46

To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'

Subject: RE: US Zip codes



Booth,



Stupid question but don't you have a state field in each customer record

?



Chuck
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