jk2addict has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello great givers of the Perl wisdom.

I currently have the itch to enhance some websites and customer data apps with better (physical, not email) address scrubbing and verification.

While scrubbing incoming or existing address information is just a matter of becoming one with a good set of regexes, verification is another journey all unto itself.

Does anyone know of any good modules for address verification? My ideal match would be something that would use an online service via HTML/SOAP/XML-RPC...I'd even love writing one is I knew of anything serving such requests.

If looked into the Scrape::USPS::* modules, but the rules of engagement are that the service can't be used for commercial purposes.

-=Chris

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Re: Address Scrubbing/Verification
by hossman (Prior) on Jul 24, 2002 at 21:36 UTC
    You may be missreading the Disclaimer.

    I believe hte comment about commercial use is in terms of posting info on the site (ie: using hte message boards to sell stuff) ... if you wnated to use their address lookup form for commercial purposes (which is what Scrape::USPS::ZipLookup does) that should fall under their "To reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit, distribute or publicly display material from this website you will need written permission from the Postal Service." clause.

    Getting permission may be hard, but it's not impossible.

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