Validate String against USPS State Abbreviations

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I need to validate a string against a list of the possible United States Postal Service state abbreviations, and Google is not offering me any direction.

I know of the obvious solution: and that is to code a horribly huge if (or switch) statement to check and compare against all 50 states, but I am asking on this forum since there has to be an easier way of doing this. Is there something out there that I could use to quickly do this the most efficient way possible? like any RegEx or something?
Sep 20, 2018 in IoT (Internet of Things) by Upasana
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Try something like this:

private static String states = "|AL|AK|AS|AZ|AR|CA|CO|CT|DE|DC|FM|FL|GA|GU|HI|ID|IL|IN|IA|KS|KY|LA|ME|MH|MD|MA|MI|MN|MS|MO|MT|NE|NV|NH|NJ|NM|NY|NC|ND|MP|OH|OK|OR|PW|PA|PR|RI|SC|SD|TN|TX|UT|VT|VI|VA|WA|WV|WI|WY|";

public static bool isStateAbbreviation (String state)
{
  return state.Length == 2 && states.IndexOf( state ) > 0;
}


I'll guarantee that this will beat the Regex or Hashtable lookups every time, no matter how many runs you make, and it will have the least memory usage.

answered Sep 20, 2018 by Annie97
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