NAME Locale::SubCountry - convert state, county, province etc names to/from code SYNOPSIS $UK_counties = new Locale::SubCountry('GB'); print($UK_counties->full_name('DUMGAL')); # Dumfries & Galloway $australia = new Locale::SubCountry('AUSTRALIA'); print($australia->code('New South Wales '),"\n"); # NSW print($australia->full_name('S.A.'),"\n"); # South Australia $upper_case = 1; print($australia->full_name('Qld',$upper_case),"\n"); # QUEENSLAND print($australia->country,"\n"); # AUSTRALIA print($australia->country_code,"\n"); # AU print($australia->sub_country_type,"\n"); # State print($australia->FIPS10_4_code('ACT'),"\n"); # 01 print($australia->ISO3166_2_code('02'),"\n"); # NSW @aus_state_names = $australia->all_full_names; @aus_code_names = $australia->all_codes; %aus_states_keyed_by_code = $australia->code_full_name_hash; %aus_states_keyed_by_name = $australia->full_name_code_hash; foreach $code ( sort keys %aus_states_keyed_by_code ) { printf("%-3s : %s\n",$code,$aus_states_keyed_by_code{$code}); } # Methods for country codes and names $world = new Locale::SubCountry::World; @all_countries = $world->all_full_names; @all_country_codes = $world->all_codes; %all_countries_keyed_by_name = $world->full_name_code_hash; %all_country_keyed_by_code = $world->code_full_name_hash; REQUIRES Perl 5.005 or above HOW TO INSTALL perl Makefile.PL make make test make install DESCRIPTION This module allows you to convert the full name for a countries administrative region to the code commonly used for postal addressing. The reverse lookup can also be done. Sub country codes are defined in "ISO 3166-2:1998, Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions". Sub countries are termed as states in the US and Australia, provinces in Canada and counties in the UK and Ireland. Names and ISO 3166-2 codes for all sub countries in a country can be returned as either a hash or an array. Names and ISO 3166-1 codes for all countries in the world can be returned as either a hash or an array. ISO 3166-2 codes can be converted to FIPS 10 -4 codes. The reverse lookup can also be done. COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2000-2002 Kim Ryan. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Perl Artistic License (see http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html). AUTHOR Locale::SubCountry was written by Kim Ryan, kimryan_nospam@cpan.org http://www.data-distillers.com CREDITS Alastair McKinstry provided many of the sub country codes and names. Terrence Brannon produced Locale::US, which was the starting point for this module. Mark Summerfield and Guy Fraser provided the list of UK counties. TJ Mather suuplied the FIPS codes and many ammendments to the sub country data