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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

Province Abbreviation Ports

Province Abbreviation Ports

Input and output ports that contain the abbreviated province name.
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 Abbreviation Usage

Select a Province Abbreviation input port to read the province abbreviation from the input address data.
Select a Province Abbreviation output port to write the province abbreviation to the output address.
Consider the following guidelines when you use Province Abbreviation ports:
  • There are six Province Abbreviation ports. Use Province Abbreviation 1 to identify the province. Use Province Abbreviation 2 to identify the primary subdivision in the province. For example, use Province Abbreviation 2 for county data in the United States. You may need to select a port in the Province Abbreviation 3 throughProvince Abbreviation 6 range if the province data is highly complex.
  • The Province Abbreviation 1 output port contains the same data as the Province Country Standard 1 output port for a United States address. Both ports return the two-letter state code.
  • The mail carrier may not require the sub-province data. Or, you may configure sub-province level data on a locality port.
    The Province Abbreviation 2 output port does not abbreviate United States county data.

Port Locations

The following table provides the location and default precision of ports Province Abbreviation 1 through Province Abbreviation 3:
Port Type
Port Group
Template Model
Precision
Input
Discrete
Advanced
50
Input
Hybrid
Advanced
50
Output
Last Line Elements
Basic
25
The following table provides the location and default precision of ports Province Abbreviation 4 through Province Abbreviation 6:
Port Type
Port Group
Template Model
Precision
Input
Discrete
Advanced
50
Input
Hybrid
Advanced
50
Output
Last Line Elements
Advanced
15

Province Abbreviation Example

The following example address contains data that the Address Validator transformation can parse to province data ports:
Mr. John Doe 1000 Fifth Avenue # 12 New York NY 10028-0198
The following table shows an address that uses province data:
Port
Data
Contact Complete 1
Mr. John Doe
Street Number Complete 1
1000
Street Complete 1
Fifth Avenue
Sub-building Complete 1
#12
Locality Complete 1
New York
Province Abbreviation 1
NY
Postcode Complete 1
10028-0198
Country ISO3 Char
USA

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