US State Names and Abbreviations

Maps US state names to state abbreviations.

Installation

$ npm install datasets-us-states-names-abbr

For use in the browser, use browserify.

Usage

var table = require( 'datasets-us-states-names-abbr' );

table

Maps US state names to state abbreviations.

console.dir( table );
/*
	{
		"Alabama": "AL",
		"Alaska": "AK",
		"Arizona": "AZ",
		"Arkansas": "AR",
		"California": "CA",
		...
	}
*/

Examples

var table = require( 'datasets-us-states-names-abbr' );

function getAbbr( state ) {
	var parts,
		abbr,
		len,
		i;

	// Ensure the first letter of each word comprising a state name is capitalized...
	parts = state.split( ' ' );
	len = parts.length;
	state = '';
	for ( i = 0; i < len; i++ ) {
		state += parts[ i ][ 0 ].toUpperCase() + parts[ i ].substring( 1 );
		if ( i < len-1 ) {
			state += ' ';
		}
	}
	// Get the state abbreviation:
	abbr = table[ state ];

	// Ensure a valid state name was provided...
	if ( abbr === void 0 ) {
		throw new Error( 'unrecognized state name. Value: `' + state + '`.' );
	}
	return abbr;
}

console.log( getAbbr( 'Missouri' ) );
console.log( getAbbr( 'New Jersey' ) );
console.log( getAbbr( 'California' ) );

To run the example code from the top-level application directory,

$ node ./examples/index.js

Tests

Unit

Unit tests use the Mocha test framework with Chai assertions. To run the tests, execute the following command in the top-level application directory:

$ make test

All new feature development should have corresponding unit tests to validate correct functionality.

Test Coverage

This repository uses Istanbul as its code coverage tool. To generate a test coverage report, execute the following command in the top-level application directory:

$ make test-cov

Istanbul creates a ./reports/coverage directory. To access an HTML version of the report,

$ make view-cov

License

MIT license.

Copyright

Copyright © 2015. The Compute.io Authors.