Reply To: Spell out state abbreviations

@Jongware

Nice little script which I used on a set of business card templates that needed to go from full state names to abbreviations. I ran into an edge case however. Washington D.C. How to tell the difference?

Since the script uses grep it might be possible to do a look ahead to check for the letters D.C. or District of Columbia, I don’t know if this can be accomplished using scripting. It might be possible to do a look ahead for the postal/zip code, in fact, this would be generally useful because using postal abbrevations are usually only relevant for the state name when it is in an address block. I simply did a normal find and replace and corrected the Washingtons by hand. In any case using the script was still much quicker than 52 find and replaces.