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Postal Code

Type Registry

Postal Code

geography.address.postal_code

Postal code or ZIP code for mail delivery. Format varies by country: US ZIP codes (5 digits or ZIP+4), UK postcodes (alphanumeric), etc. Locale-specific format.

Domain geography›address
Casts to VARCHAR
Scope Locale-specific
Locales EN, EN_AU, EN_GB, EN_CA, EN_US, DE, FR, ES, IT, NL, PL, RU, JA, ZH, KO

Try it

CLI 
$ finetype infer -i "10001"
→ geography.address.postal_code

DuckDB

Detect 
SELECT finetype('10001');
-- → 'geography.address.postal_code'
Cast expression 
CAST({col} AS VARCHAR)
Safe cast pipeline 
-- Normalise and cast in one step
SELECT TRY_CAST(finetype_cast(my_column) AS VARCHAR) AS clean_value
FROM my_table
WHERE finetype(my_column) = 'geography.address.postal_code';

Struct Expansion

first_part: REGEXP_EXTRACT({col}, '^([0-9A-Z]+)')

JSON Schema

finetype schema geography.address.postal_code 
{
  "$id": "https://noon.sh/schemas/geography.address.postal_code",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "description": "Postal code or ZIP code for mail delivery. Format varies by country: US ZIP codes (5 digits or ZIP+4), UK postcodes (alphanumeric), etc. Locale-specific format.",
  "examples": [
    "10001",
    "75004",
    "W1C 1AX",
    "EC1A 1BB"
  ],
  "maxLength": 10,
  "minLength": 3,
  "title": "Postal Code",
  "type": "string"
}

Examples

1000175004W1C 1AXEC1A 1BB

Also known as

zip_codepostcode

Types in geography