You can use AddrScan to:
- Consistently identify the appropriate address lines to pass to a postal coding API such as Finalist to ensure the best chance of coding
- Restructure your address lines
- Identify the ZIP Code and the ZIP + 4 code if present on input
- Identify and return Puerto Rico URB data
- Specify the format of the returned lines
- Return the original address lines in a standardized format and identify each line
- Accept up to six address lines as input and return four address lines and a 10-byte ZIP Code field
- Identify any of the six input address lines that were not used during processing
- Use your user-written driver to call AddrScan to identify and/or reorganize address lines before passing the data to a postal coding API such as Finalist
- Relate the returned line address to both your original input address and the standardized address
- Set up exceptions for AddrScan processing on the mainframe platform using the ADDRTBLS module (not available on other platforms)
The list below provides specific examples of how the AddrScan function benefits Finalist customers.
- Your input address record contains multiple or floating address lines. AddrScan accepts up to six address lines in an input record and returns four address lines and a 10-byte ZIP Code field.
- Your input address record has more than two address lines where the street address is found.
- Your input city/state line floats.
- Apartment or floor information appears on a separate line from the street information. This information often provides a more precise assignment of the sector segment number.
- You want to select the USPS-preferred address type from a choice of addresses.
- You need to specify the format of the returned line information for your calling program to receive.
- Your ZIP Code is not fix-fielded, but you want to perform a ZIP Code lookup using a postal coding API such as Finalist. A fix-fielded ZIP Code is a ZIP Code that always begins in the same position of the same field within an address record. The next example illustrates address records for which the ZIP Code is not fix-fielded.
Example
The examples below do not contain fix-fielded ZIP Codes. The ZIP Code can appear in a different location within each address record.
123 Main St
Roseville MI 48066
451 S Washington Ave
Apartment 1B
San Francisco, CA 94101
300 Birch Lane
Glen Ellyn IL
60137