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Re: st: Looping through entries in csv file
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David Elliott <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Looping through entries in csv file
Date
Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:53:59 -0300
Once one has the postal district extracted from the address fields,
why not just use it to merge with a file containing the districts and
counties? I'm not catching the reason to place everything in a
global.
I also need to ask a question about UK postal codes. Are UK codes
fully circumscribed by county boundaries? In Canada the fist part of
the postal code is called a "Forward sortation area" or FSA - The FSA
where I work, for example is "B3J" One FSA can serve a fairly large
region and at least for us, that region can extend across county lines
which plays holy hell with our use of them to place persons within a
county boundary for statistical purposes. It may be prudent to test
your apparent assumption that codes don't cross county lines.
DC Elliott
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