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by Ziomislaw
4663 days ago
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this looks a bit different from the other side.
When I worked at in a big retail shop we had to have forms (ie. zip/city) validation.
There was a time when validation was as simple as proposed in the article (checking for presence of data, not the meaning).
You wouldn't believe the things people are able to type into forms. One of the most common errors was a bad combination of zip/city (ie. zip code for a different country area) which required a live person on the phone asking customer about proper data - it costed money. The most unusual one was when a person managed to type gibberish in every field avaliable and than add to it a proper adress, name, zip etc... all in a three or four letter wide house-number box. VALIDATE ALL THE THINGS! |
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That sounds problematic to begin with. I grew up in a house with a 5-digit street number.