@zerodep/address-state NPM

@zerodep/address-country

license

A parser to find where a state name or abbreviation is in a string.

Full documentation is available at the zerodep.app page.

Signature

declare const addressState: (address: string, countryIso2?: CountryIso2) => AddressState[];

interface AddressState {
  stateAbbr: StateUsAbbr | StateCaAbbr;
  source: string;
  ndx: number;
  length: number;
}

Function Parameters

The addressState function has the following parameters:

address - an address string
countryIso2 - optional 2-letter country code

Successful Response

The addressState function will return the following:

stateAbbr - the 2-letter abbreviation of the state
source - the string that matched to identify the state
ndx - the position in the string where the source match starts
length - the length of the matched string

Unsuccessful Response

The addressState function will throw an Error if the state cannot be found.

Examples

All @zerodep packages support both ESM and CJS formats, each complete with Typescript typings.

// ESM
import { addressState } from '@zerodep/address-state';

// CJS
const { addressState } = require('@zerodep/address-state');

// American address
addressState('1234 Main Street, Los Angeles California, 90210');
// or
addressState('1234 Main Street, Los Angeles California, 90210', 'US');
//  [
//    {
//      stateAbbr: 'CA',
//      source: 'California',
//      ndx: 30,
//      length: 10,
//    },
//  ]

// Canadian Address
addressState('13375 rue rita pierrefonds quebec h8z1j3');
// or
addressState('13375 rue rita pierrefonds quebec h8z1j3', 'CA');
// [
//   {
//     "stateAbbr": "QC",
//     "source": "qc",
//     "ndx": 27,
//     "length": 6,
//   }
// ]

// Unspecified country
addressState('1234 oregon street, toronto on');
// [
//   {
//     "stateAbbr": "ON",
//     "source": "on",
//     "ndx": 28,
//     "length": 2
//   },
//   {
//     "stateAbbr": "OR",
//     "source": "oregon",
//     "ndx": 5,
//     "length": 6
//   }
// ]

// no results found
addressState('unknown');
// []

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