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Re: State from ZIP code
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"Mark J. Reed" <[log in to unmask]>
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Macintosh Scripting Systems <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:09:22 -0400
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On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Stockly, Ed <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> That means that this project is doomed to failure in those 42 cases - unless
> Ed is prepared to check for every locality in those 42 zip codes -
>
> I could use the first 4 digits.

Wouldn't help; we're talking about the full 5 digits, not just the
three-digit prefix.  There are 42 five-digit ZIP codes that cross
state lines.    The code should probably flag those somehow.

-- 
Mark J. Reed <[log in to unmask]>

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