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Geocoding Inventor Locations (view source)
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*United Kingdom ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_postcodes Sourced from Wikipedia]): A9 9AA, A99 9AA, A9A 9AA, AA9 9AA, AA99 9AA, AA9A 9AA. Simple Regex: <tt>([A-Z]{1,2}[0-9]{1,2}[A-Z]{0,1}\s[0-9][A-Z]{2,2})</tt>
*France ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_codes_in_France Sourced from Wikipedia]): NNNMM or NNMMM where NN and NNN are numerics indicating the préfectures and sous-préfectures, respectively, and MMM are other numerics. However the following formats also appear frequently in the patent data: F NNNNN, F-NNNNN, F - NNNNN, F- NN NNN, FNNNNN, F-NN NNN, F-NN, FR - NNNNN, FR NNNNN, FR-NNNNN, (NNNNN), (NN), - NNNNN, -NNNNN-, -NN, NN, NN - N-NNNNN, NNNN, NN NNN, NN.NNN, NNN/N, NN., F. NNNNN, F.NNNNN, "FRNN,NNN". French postal codes most often, but not exclusively, occur at the start of the address string.
The Match::PostalCodes.pm perl module provides a method to extract a postcode from a text string for a given ISO3166 code.