3 Locale::SubCountry - convert state, county, province etc names to/from code
7 my $UK = new Locale::SubCountry('GB');
8 if ( $UK->has_sub_countries )
10 print($UK->full_name('DGY'),"\n"); # Dumfries and Galloway
11 print($UK->regional_division('DGY'),"\n"); # SCT (Scotland)
14 my $australia = new Locale::SubCountry('AUSTRALIA');
15 print($australia->country,"\n"); # AUSTRALIA
16 print($australia->country_code,"\n"); # AU
18 if ( $australia->has_sub_countries )
20 print($australia->code('New South Wales '),"\n"); # NSW
21 print($australia->full_name('S.A.'),"\n"); # South Australia
23 print($australia->full_name('Qld',$upper_case),"\n"); # QUEENSLAND
24 print($australia->category('NSW'),"\n"); # state
25 print($australia->FIPS10_4_code('ACT'),"\n"); # 01
26 print($australia->ISO3166_2_code('02'),"\n"); # NSW
28 my @aus_state_names = $australia->all_full_names;
29 my @aus_code_names = $australia->all_codes;
30 my %aus_states_keyed_by_code = $australia->code_full_name_hash;
31 my %aus_states_keyed_by_name = $australia->full_name_code_hash;
33 foreach my $code ( sort keys %aus_states_keyed_by_code )
35 printf("%-3s : %s\n",$code,$aus_states_keyed_by_code{$code});
39 # Methods for country codes and names
41 my $world = new Locale::SubCountry::World;
42 my @all_countries = $world->all_full_names;
43 my @all_country_codes = $world->all_codes;
45 my %all_countries_keyed_by_name = $world->full_name_code_hash;
46 my %all_country_keyed_by_code = $world->code_full_name_hash;
60 This module allows you to convert the full name for a countries administrative
61 region to the code commonly used for postal addressing. The reverse lookup
62 can also be done. Sub country codes are defined in "ISO 3166-2:1998,
63 Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions".
65 Sub countries are termed as states in the US and Australia, provinces
66 in Canada and counties in the UK and Ireland.
68 Names and ISO 3166-2 codes for all sub countries in a country can be
69 returned as either a hash or an array.
71 Names and ISO 3166-1 codes for all countries in the world can be
72 returned as either a hash or an array.
74 ISO 3166-2 codes can be converted to FIPS 10-4 codes. The reverse lookup can
80 Locale::SubCountry was written by Kim Ryan, kimryan at cpan dot org
85 Alastair McKinstry provided many of the sub country codes and names.
87 Terrence Brannon produced Locale::US, which was the starting point for
90 Mark Summerfield and Guy Fraser provided the list of UK counties.
92 TJ Mather suuplied the FIPS codes and many amendments to the sub country data
97 Copyright (C) 2008 by Kim Ryan. All rights reserved.
99 This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
100 it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.4 or,
101 at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.