Thanks! Both solutions work well for the problem that I described,
although I failed to mention that there are also pre-abbreviated names
in the list that I'm working with, and the second solution returns NA's
for these (but there are plenty of ways around this). Sample data might
be: State.Province <- c("Cusco", "TX", "unknown", "Texas", NA, "Louisiana")
David
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