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Re:Generate Regex from Examples by atomwaffel on Saturday July 25, 2015 @07:30AM (#9947271)
The GeoNames Country Information table has a "Postal Code Regex" column that you might find interesting: http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/countryInfo.txt
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Re:Generate Regex from Examples by aaronem on Saturday July 25, 2015 @08:15AM (#9947357)
Some of those regexes are terrifying. Granted that I'm not sure there is any better alternative for extracting structured address information from an unstructured source, but...
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