How can I validate worldwide postal codes in my .NET code

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I am looking for a way to validate worldwide postal codes in my .NET project, and I don't really want to come up and maintain regular expressions for the whole world.

Preferably I would want to pull in a dependency to a library or in the worst case use some web based service (but that would really be a last resort).

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 25 '15 at 21:32

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Check out PostalCodes.Net package on github.

It support most countries and has a good interface. Here is an example:

var country = CountryFactory.Instance.CreateCountry("PL");
var postalCode = PostalCodeFactory.Instance.CreatePostalCode(country, "44-100");

answered Mar 25 '15 at 21:32

istanishev

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Seems like when the postal code is invalid you will get `ArgumentException` with the message describing the reason. – Rafał Nowosielski Mar 25 '15 at 21:49

How can I validate worldwide postal codes in my .NET code

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