Posted by Steve on 03/21/07 23:33

<laredotornado@zipmail.com> wrote in message
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| On Mar 19, 10:29 pm, "Steve" <no....@example.com> wrote:
| > <laredotorn...@zipmail.com> wrote in message
| >
| > news:1174344110.918327.309280@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
| > | Hi,
| > |
| > | Using PHP 4.4.4. Does anyone have a pre-written function that tests
| > | whether a two letter abbreviation is in the continental United
| > | States? At first I wrote my function to check against inequality with
| > | "AK" and "HI", but that neglects the territories and protectorates,
| > | and some people will enter those in as abbreviations (e.g. "VI",
| > | Virgin Islands) in our shopping cart.
| >
| > this function is quite easy to understand:
| >
| > function isState($abbreviation)
| > {
| > $states = array(
| > 'AL' ,
| > 'AK' ,
| > 'AZ'
| > // and so on ...
| > );
| > return in_array($abbreviation, $states);
| >
| > }
|
| Thanks but what I was selfishly hoping was that someone could list
| those out. It is a pain to cut and paste and type. - Dave

jesus christ!

google, get the list, paste it into an editor that allows columnar editing
(ctrl+c in crimson editor), format it, and you're good to go. that takes all
of 5 minutes - which is far more valueable to me than to spoon-feed a lazy
programmer (read, you).

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