Re: Zip Codes Revisited...

2000-11-08 Thread Alex Schroeder
Alex Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ronan Waide [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is this: go ahead with the zips-as-strings conversion (does this mean we need BBDB v6 file format? I guess so...), and modify the validation code to work on the strings - i.e. it doesn't try to parse the

Re: Zip Codes Revisited...

2000-11-01 Thread Alex Schroeder
Ronan Waide [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is this: go ahead with the zips-as-strings conversion (does this mean we need BBDB v6 file format? I guess so...), and modify the validation code to work on the strings - i.e. it doesn't try to parse the zipcodes into a list or whatever, but it does try

Re: Zip Codes Revisited...

2000-10-26 Thread Aldo Valente
Alex Schroeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The issue is still undecided. A long time ago I wrote up a patch that transformed all zip codes into strings and did away with all the datastructure cruft that is used to validate zip codes. Since the zip codes were saved as plain text strings, my