Arthur Fuller
artful at rogers.com
Fri May 21 16:16:38 CDT 2004
I always use a memo field for Addresses. The front end may present a list of countries, cities and provinces/states/cantons, and I store these too, but I assemble the address according to a template in the Countries table. It could be a by-product of the apps I've worked on, and useless to anyone else, but in Europe the most common address format places the street number after the street name (i.e. Amstrat 300). There are many similar variations from country to country or continent to continent, so I handle it with a template in the Countries table which looks something like this (for the Netherlands, say): \StreetName\ \StreetNumber\ \City\, \Province\ \PostalCode\ \Country\ Then it's trivial to use Replace() to dump the actual data into the template. I would appreciate input from non-North-Americans on this so I can add new templates for your countries. TIA, Arthur P.S. Anyone with specialized knowledge of city-states such as Singapore is especially invited to contribute!