On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 17:22:01 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (A. Pagaltzis)
wrote:
> * Abigail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-02 16:08]:
> > For all other countries, I've nothing so far. Can anyone
> > help?
>
> For Germany, it's a simple \d{5} - any digit including zero
> allowed at any position, and all five places must be given.
Which is an improvement (from the point of view of data processing) over
the previous format -- \d{1,4}. Officially, \d{4}, but trailing zeroes
were often left off. So you could have "2 Hamburg 1" (= 2000), "21
Hamburg 90" (= 2100), "208 Pinneberg" (= 2080), and "2082 Tornesch". Oh,
and larger towns had numbers after the name as well, as in the first two
examples; this has gone away with five-digit postal codes, too.
Cheers,
Philip
