Address Validator Port Reference

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Province ISO Ports

Input and output ports that identify the province in which an address is located. The ports read or write the province identifier that the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) defines in the ISO

3166-2

standard.

In address validation, a province is the largest political or administrative division in a country. For example, address validation identifies a state in the United States, a province in Canada, and a canton in Switzerland as provinces.

Province ISO Usage

To read or write the province ISO

3166-2

code for the province, select a Province ISO port.

Consider the following guidelines when you use Province ports:

There are three Province ISO input ports and six Province ISO output ports. Use Province

ISO 1

to identify the province or region defined at the highest level in the country, such as a state in the United States of America. Use Province

ISO 2

to identify a subdivision of the province if the ISO

3166-2

standard records the subdivision.

The ISO

3166-2

standard defines provinces at multiple levels in some countries. Use Province

ISO 1

to identify the largest political region. For example, the standard defines code values at regional and provincial level in the Philippines. In this case, use Province

ISO 1

to identify the regions and Province

ISO 2

to identify the provinces. In the Philippines, a region contains multiple provinces.

The ISO

3166-2

standard does not identify state subdivisions in the United States. Use the Province

Abbreviation 2

port to identify United States county names.

Port Locations

The following table provides the location and default precision of the

Province 1

through

Province 3

ports:

Port Type	Port Group	Template Model	Precision
Input	Discrete	Advanced	3
Output	Last Line Elements	Basic	50

The following table provides the location and default precision of the

Province 4

through

Province 6

ports:

Port Type	Port Group	Template Model	Precision
Input	Discrete	Advanced	3
Input	Last Line Elements	Advanced	50

Province ISO Example

The ISO

3166-2

standard uses two coded values to uniquely identify a province. The first value identifies the country and the second value identifies the province. The province values can use letters or numbers and can have up to three characters.

For example. the following values identify New York state in the United States: