Locale::US(3p)

NAME
Locale::US - Two letter codes for state identification in the United States and vice versa.

SYNOPSIS
  use Locale::US;

  my $u = Locale::US->new;

  my $state = $u->{code2state}{$code};
  my $code  = $u->{state2code}{$state};

  my @state = $u->all_state_names;
  my @code  = $u->all_state_codes;

ABSTRACT
Map from US two-letter codes to states and vice versa.

DESCRIPTION

  MAPPING
$self->{code2state}

This is a hashref which has two-letter state names as the key and the long name as the value.

$self->{state2code}

This is a hashref which has the long nameas the key and the two-letter state name as the value.

  DUMPING
$self->all_state_names

Returns an array (not arrayref) of all state names in alphabetical form

$self->all_state_codes

Returns an array (not arrayref) of all state codes in alphabetical form.

KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

•   The state name is returned in uc() format.

•   neither hash is strict, though they should be.

SEE ALSO

  Locale::Country
Locale::Country

  Abbreviations
<http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/lookups/usps_abbreviations.htm>

    Online file with the USPS two-letter codes for the United States and its possessions.

  AUXILIARY CODE:
    lynx -dump http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/lookups/usps_abbreviations.htm > kruft.txt
    kruft2codes.pl

AUTHOR
Currently maintained by Mike Accardo, <accardo@cpan.org>

Original author T. M. Brannon

  PATCHES
Thanks to stevet AT ibrinc for a patch about second call to new failing.

COPYRIGHT
    Copyright (c) 2015 Mike Accardo
    Copyright (c) 2002-2014 Terrence Brannon

All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.