I am not sure what you mean by "valid words"? Would this mean that an address must contain one of the special words to be ok, such as "street" or "st", "lane", "road" or something in the address field?

I'd say that is an impossible task, unless some countries actually have such strict policies for what is a valid address. Speaking for Sweden, for one thing, we have lots of addresses containing "gata", which means "street" for instance, but lots of addresses don't - and some addresses are just the name of a village, or something smaller than that, with or without a number after it. Yet other addresses are something that would translate to "Mailbox XXX", which is not the same thing as a PO box (we have those too), etc... frankly, I can't see any other match to our addresses than /.+/.

Either I misunderstood what you mean, or I think it will be impossible to create these rules - unless you would do as some e-commerce do, check addresses against where people live according to central government registers. And that was clearly not your goal... :)

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: International Addresses by Dog and Pony
in thread International Addresses by krazken

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