Address Validator Port Reference

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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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Address Validator Port Reference

Address Validator Port Reference

Formatted Address Line Ports

Formatted Address Line Ports

Formatted Address Line Usage

Port Locations

Formatted Address Line Example