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Fix postal code numbers

Source: R/fix_postal_code.R
fix_postal_code.Rd

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fix_postal_code() provides tools to fix postal code numbers.

Usage

fix_postal_code(
  postal_code,
  min_char = 3,
  max_char = 8,
  squish = TRUE,
  remove_non_numeric = TRUE,
  remove_number_sequences = TRUE,
  trunc = TRUE,
  pad = TRUE,
  zero_na = FALSE
)

Arguments

postal_code

A character vector with postal code numbers.

min_char

(Optional) An integerish number with the minimum number of characters (Default: 3).

max_char

(Optional) An integerish number with the maximum number of characters (Default: 8).

squish

(Optional) A logical flag indicating whether to squish (i.e., remove leading, trailing, and extra spaces) the postal code numbers (Default: TRUE).

remove_non_numeric

(Optional) A logical flag indicating whether to remove non-numeric characters from the postal code numbers (Default: TRUE).

remove_number_sequences

(Optional) A logical flag indicating whether to remove number sequences from the postal code numbers. This is useful to remove postal code numbers like 11111111 (Default: TRUE).

trunc

(Optional) A logical flag indicating whether to truncate the postal code numbers to max_char width (Default: TRUE).

pad

(Optional) A logical flag indicating whether to pad the postal code numbers with zeros to max_char width (Default: TRUE).

zero_na

(Optional) A logical flag indicating whether to replace NA values with zeros (Default: FALSE).

Value

A character vector with fixed postal code numbers.

See also

Other utility functions: get_map_fill_data()

Examples

fix_postal_code("  01014908  ", squish = TRUE)
#> [1] "01014908"
#> [1] "01014908" # Expected

fix_postal_code("01014908", min_char = 10)
#> [1] NA
#> [1] NA # Expected

fix_postal_code("01014908", max_char = 5, trunc = FALSE)
#> [1] NA
#> [1] NA # Expected

fix_postal_code("A1C14D08", remove_non_numeric = TRUE, pad = TRUE)
#> [1] "11408000"
#> [1] "11408000" # Expected

fix_postal_code("123456789", remove_number_sequences = TRUE)
#> [1] NA
#> [1] NA # Expected

fix_postal_code("01014908", max_char = 5, trunc = TRUE)
#> [1] "01014"
#> [1] "01014" # Expected

fix_postal_code("01253", max_char = 8, pad = TRUE)
#> [1] "01253000"
#> [1] "01253000" # Expected

fix_postal_code(NA, max_char = 8, zero_na = TRUE)
#> [1] "00000000"
#> [1] "00000000" # Expected