-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/17/07 20:33, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 06:51:03PM +0000, Matt Brown wrote: >> 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! >> > That got me thinking. I figure that since MI -> Michigan, it meant that > MI was the first state to start with those letters. Logically, I would > think, always use the first two letters, unless another state already > had them. Arbitrate in order granting of statehood. But both > Mississippi (MS) and Missouri (MO) were states before Michigan (MI).
The USPS doesn't care about entry into the union. It cares about collating and routing. In alphabetical order: Michigan MI first 2 letters of name Minnesota MN first two non-MI letters of name Mississippi MS first two non-MI letters of name Missouri MO first two non-MS letters of name - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA %SYSTEM-F-FISH, my hovercraft is full of eels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHP78PS9HxQb37XmcRAhoAAJ9EdjvARhzDuFf6SIPrZlsK8zvh8wCg65/o 6nU3UhDAJz/QO1KQaTzwOlY= =kZoB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]