On 11/17/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This Perl module provides methods allowing United States' two-letter > > state identification parsing from state code to state name and vice > > versa. > > Is a package really needed for something this simple?
It might be obvious to a US native, but it's hardly simple or obvious to those of us outside America. MI is a prime example, does it refer to Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi or Minesota? The first two letters match all four. If you come across this every day you probably know the answer, but I just had to look it up again (Michigan) despite being caught out by this just the other week! -- Matt Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mob +353 86 608 7117 www.mattb.net.nz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
