class PostCodes::PostCode
Class for holding postcode data
Attributes
cat[R]
Category
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‘G’ = street address
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‘P’ = Postboxes
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‘B’ = Both street addresses and postboxes
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‘S’ = Service addresses
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‘K’ = Customer with its own post code
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‘F’ = Multiple uses
city[R]
Name of city
municipality[R]
Four digit municipality (‘kommune’) id
municipality_name[R]
Name of municipality (‘kommune’)
postcode[R]
Four digit post code
Public Class Methods
new(postcode, city, muni, muni_name, cat)
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Create a new post code. This method should generally not be used by users of the library.
# File lib/postcodes-norway.rb, line 57 def initialize(postcode, city, muni, muni_name, cat) @postcode, @city, @municipality, @municipality_name, @cat = postcode, city, muni, muni_name, cat end
Public Instance Methods
county()
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Return the County (‘kommune’) from the postcode data. The returned format is ‘[county_id, county_name]`
# File lib/postcodes-norway.rb, line 63 def county code = @municipality[0..1].to_i [code, PostCodes.county(code)] end
to_s()
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Output postcode data in the same format as in the original postcode database.
# File lib/postcodes-norway.rb, line 69 def to_s [@postcode, @city, @municipality, @municipality_name, @cat].join("\t") end