Revision history for Perl CPAN module Lingua::EN::AddressParse 1.17 18 Sep 2013 Added Build.PL Expanded test coverage to more address formats Expanded auto_clean functions Corrected casing of letters in sub property identifiers, such as Unit 23B (retain B as capital) Allowed for government roads, such as 12 US Highway 19 Allowed for single word streets such as Broadway, no street type Allowed for more 3 word street types Added more ordinal street types Allowed post box numbers to be up to 6 digits Added more street types Added more sub property types, unified sub_property grammar Added more street names Improved report method Keep street direction in all capitals when casing components _validate now checks for PO box format 1.16 20 Jan 2011 Moved AddressGrammar.pm to Lingua::EN::AddressParse::Grammar name space Included tests for Canadian and UK addresses 1.15 17 Jun 2007 Added sample pre parser for correcting common errors Added more street types Added more street nouns Added more sub property types Allowed for optional street number, name and type in rural addresses Allowed for up to 5 numbers in property identifier Allowed for street names with up to three words, such as 'Tin Can Bay Road' Allowed for sub building patterns such as 'Level 6 Tower A 123 Main St' Thanks to Kieren Diment for test cases 1.14 18 Jul 2005 Fixed auto_clean option so that quotes are retained, needed for rural property names Added report method to dump address properties and components Updated distribution to current CPAN requirements 1.13 22 Jun 2005 Added US style sub properties, such as 123 Main St Suite # 12 Somewhere CA 92345 Added US style street directional suffix, such as 123 Main St S Somewhere CA 92345 Added new address type 'road_box'. This allows for box identifier such as RMB, optionally street name and type, then suburb and post code. Sub property values are now returned as as separate component sub_property_identifier, not as part of the property_identifier component Created a better grammar for property_identifier Removed incorrect validity tests that were not accounting for ordinal street types Fixed auto_clean option so that numbers are retained in ordinal street types! Expanded and improved documentation and comments 1.12 07 Mar 2004 Removed any sub country descriptive text (in square brackets) that occurs from grammar. This was needed because of an upgrade to the data in Locale-SubCountry 1.11 21 Mar 2002 Let user specify country argument to 'new' method as either country code (AU) or full name (AUSTRALIA). Changed documentation to reflect this, altered United Kingdom code from 'UK' (incorrect) to 'GB' Fixed bug that was preventing Canadian addresses from parsing Added a test case for each country in main.t Improved report layout in demo.pl to allow for non Australian addresses 1.10 09 Feb 2002 Allowed for cases such as "Unit 4 12 Smith St." Improved speed by reordering sequence of street types Added option to only accept short form of sub_country, such as NW Thanks to Peter Schendzielorz for the following suggestions: Allowed sub_country names to occur in suburb, such as Victoria Valley VIC Added more street types Added more sub property types Added more post box types Added 'Mt', 'Sir' and 'Dame' to street prefixes, as in Mt Baw Baw Rd Allowed for cases like 'Grand Ridge Road' Allowed for cases like 'Close','Glen', 'St' etc to occur in either street name or street type Allowed for apostrophes and full stops in suburb_word, as in French's Forest Allowed for 3 digits post codes such as 800 (in Northern Territory, Aust) Allowed for box_number to end in a letter Allowed property name to be delimited by single or double quotes Accounted for street types as street names, such as 'The Corso', 'The Parkway' 1.05 24 Sep 2001 Added more street types Removed duplicated declaration for main.t 1.04 31 Aug 2001 Allowed for streets with numbers or single letters (42nd, A, B...) Allowed for ZIP codes of type 12345-6789 Thanks to Mike Edwards for noting these limitations Added 'Park'to street types, while accounting for cases like 'Park Lane, 'Moore Park Road' etc. Added extra test case Added street prefixes (like Old, East) back in to simplify grammar 1.03 24 May 2001 Allowed for forced abbreviations of sub country Removed POD directives from README 1.02 24 Apr 2001: Placed "my" declaration of loop variables inside foreach statements. NOTE THIS MEANS PERL 5.004 IS NOW THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENT! Full names for sub countries now supported (New South Wales as well as NSW) Used look aheads to simplify grammar (thanks to Damian Conway for his help) Removed street prefixes from grammar as they were not needed Returned street type (Road, Lane etc) as a separate element from street Made property identifiers optional for suburban addresses (Low St. Kew VIC 3012 is OK) Initialised values for all components and properties to empty string Stopped warnings generated by uninitialized strings in grammar Only allow country names that match initializing country string Removed space that was occurring between PO Box and following number Added more cases to test file main.t Improved demo.pl Fixed all POD and line terminator errors, thanks to Jason Gallagher 1.01 9 Apr 2001: Fixed "use Locale::SubCountry" call in AddressGrammar 1.00 18 Mar 2001: Upgraded to work with changes to Locale::SubCountry, specifically, US rather than USA being the valid code for initializing US addresses Moved grammar definition to AddressGrammar.pm module 0.03 14 May 2000: Added Canadian post codes, thanks to Steve Taylor Replaced commas with spaces, rather than removing them Removed @EXPORT and @EXPORT_OK as they were not needed 0.02 30 Apr 2000: Used Locale::Subcountry for list of states, counties etc Added more UK post code types, thanks to Mark Summerfield 0.01 28 Dec 1999: First Release