open-ils.search.zip has a hard-coded zip format

[Pasi Kallinen]

Zips.pm has:

$zip =~ s/(^\d{5}).*/$1/; # we don't care about the last 4 digits if they exist

This may not work for everyone - perhaps we should use ui.patron.edit.aua.post_code.regex OUS if it's set.

[Christopher Burton (cburton)]

Agreed. Canada follows 1N1 N1N which is much different.
The regex being set in the library settings editor for postal code could possibly be used in its place as suggested

[Rogan Hamby (rogan-hamby)]

I'm questioning a single regular expression. I can imagine either wanting none or support multiple but not one. Sure, some libraries may use only a single postal code but even, say, in the middle of the United States, an out of country address is hardly unknown. And I can easily imagine libraries in border regions that would need multiple patterns.

If we need multiple would a separate management panel of postal code pattern, pre-populated with common ones, be better?

[Rogan Hamby (rogan-hamby)]

Also, since Evergreen has a significant non-US user base I'm moving this up to medium importance.