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  1. Preface
  2. Introduction
  3. Address Validation Status Ports
  4. Building and Residence Data Ports
  5. Business and Organization Data Ports
  6. City and Locality Data Ports
  7. Country Data Ports
  8. Customer Segmentation Data Ports
  9. Enrichment Data Ports
  10. Formatted Data Ports
  11. Postal Carrier Certification Data Ports
  12. Postcode Data Ports
  13. Province and State Data Ports
  14. Residual Data Ports
  15. Street Data Ports
  16. Supplementary Data Ports
  17. XML Ports

Address Validator Port Reference

Address Validator Port Reference

Formatted Address Line Ports

Formatted Address Line Ports

Input and output ports that contain data that is formatted on multiple lines to mail delivery standards.
The national mail carrier defines the standard address format for mail items in a country. If you provide addresses that conform to the standard format, the mail carrier can offer you a discount on the cost of delivery. Formatted Address Line ports create address lines that are structured to the postal standards of the mail carrier. Formatted Address Line ports read and write the address data to multiple lines.
You can use Formatted Address Line ports with addresses of different types and from different countries. Formatted Address Line ports can contain any type of address data. For example, if the input data set contains both residential and business addresses, the Address Validator transformation parses the lines of each address according to the expected postal format. The output data creates a printable address regardless of the address structure required.
Formatted address data can include the following elements:
  • Contact data
  • Building and sub-building data
  • Street and dependent street data
  • Post Office Box data
  • Locality data
  • Province data
  • Post code data
  • Country data
Formatted Address Line ports do not include data that enhances deliverability, such as barcode data.

Formatted Address Line Usage

Select Formatted Address Line input ports when the input data is composed of address line instead of fields for specific information types.
Select Formatted Address Line output ports to write addresses that are formatted for envelope printing and mail delivery.
Consider the following guidelines when you use Formatted Address Line ports:
  • The Formatted Address Line output ports may combine or reorder data elements and may change the case of the data.
  • If you select Formatted Address Line input ports, do not select a Complete Address input port. A Complete Address port contains the same data as the set of Formatted Address Line ports.
  • The input address data must contain the complete postal address. The Address Validator transformation cannot format an address if any data is missing.
  • There are 19 Formatted Address Line input and output ports. Use ports Formatted Address Line 1 through Formatted Address Line 12.

Port Locations

The following table provides the location and default precision of ports Formatted Address Line 1 through Formatted Address Line 12:
Port Type
Port Group
Template Model
Precision
Input
Multiline
Basic
128
Output
Formatted Address Line
Basic
128
The following table provides the location and default precision of ports Formatted Address Line 13 through Formatted Address Line 19:
Port Type
Port Group
Template Model
Precision
Input
Multiline
Advanced
50
Output
Formatted Address Line
Advanced
128
Formatted Address Line ports 13 through 19 are reserved for future use.

Formatted Address Line Example

The following example address contains data that the Address Validator transformation can parse to Formatted Address Line ports:
Mr. John Doe 1000 Fifth Avenue # 12 New York NY 10028-0198
The following table shows the address in the United States Postal Service (USPS) standard format:
Port
Data
Formatted Address Line 1
MR. JOHN DOE
Formatted Address Line 2
1000 5TH AVE # 12
Formatted Address Line 3
NEW YORK NY 10028-0198
The USPS postal standard writes a residential United States address on three address lines.

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