NAME

Locale::US - two letter codes for state identification in the United States and vice versa.

SYNOPSIS

 use Locale::US;

 my $u = Locale::US->new;

 my $state = $u->{code2state}{$code};
 my $code  = $u->{state2code}{$state};

 my @state = $u->all_state_names;
 my @code  = $u->all_state_codes;

ABSTRACT

Map from US two-letter codes to states and vice versa.

DESCRIPTION

MAPPING

$self->{code2state}

This is a hashref which has two-letter state names as the key and the long name as the value.

$self->{state2code}

This is a hashref which has the long nameas the key and the two-letter state name as the value.

DUMPING

$self->all_state_names

Returns an array (not arrayref) of all state names in alphabetical form

$self->all_state_codes

Returns an array (not arrayref) of all state codes in alphabetical form.

KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

  • The state name is returned in uc() format.

  • neither hash is strict, though they should be.

SEE ALSO

Locale::Country

Locale::Country

Abbreviations

http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/lookups/usps_abbreviations.htm

Online file with the USPS two-letter codes for the United States and its possessions.

AUXILIARY CODE:

lynx -dump http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/lookups/usps_abbreviations.htm > kruft.txt
kruft2codes.pl

COPYRIGHT INFO

Copyright (c) 2002 - $present Terrence Brannon.

All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

License: GPL, Artistic, available in the Debian Linux Distribution at /usr/share/common-licenses/{GPL,Artistic}

AUTHOR

T. M. Brannon, <tbone@cpan.org>

PATCHES

Thanks to stevet AT ibrinc for a patch about second call to new failing.