How do I resolve Multiple Matches with Street Data?
When Address Object return to you an error code of ‘M’ indicating a multiple match address, you can use street data to figure out exactly which addresses the input can be matched to. You do so by using the street data interface, which is used to look up the address records inside the USPS database. Here are the steps to find those matches: 1) Call the FindStreet Method (and FindStreetNext) by passing in the street name and zip code of the input a) You must isolate the street name out of the address. To do so, you can use the Parse interface to split the address into its address components, including street name. b) If you do not have a zip and only have the city and state in the input, but can generate a zip by using the ZipData interface FindZip method. Pass in the city and state to get a list of all zip codes in that city/state. You can use any of the zip codes returned by FindZip because FindStreet will search all zip codes within the city of the given zip. 2) Take the results of th
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