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Ireland postal code

ID ie_postcode

Pattern of postindexPersonal data (PII)categoricalDraft

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Postal code in Ireland: the Eircode, introduced in 2015. It has seven letters and digits, written as a group of three and a group of four with an optional space.

Pattern of
Postal code/index postindex
Categories
Geographic identifiers, Personally identifiable information, Common
Countries
Ireland
Languages
English
Quality
68/100 · missing: second example, mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation, detector coverage
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Regular expression

^[\dA-Z]{3} ?[\dA-Z]{4}$

Python re syntax.

Examples

ValueDescription
A65 F4E2
A65 F4E invalidtoo short

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