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rossriley/postcodelib
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Perform simple analysis and validation on UK postcodes

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A Value Object for UK Postcodes
-------------------------------

[](#a-value-object-for-uk-postcodes)

This simple class ensure that a postcode is valid along with some helper methods to ease formatting.

### Usage

[](#usage)

```
use Postcodelib\Postcode;

$postcode = new Postcode('B55SE');
$postcode->valid(); // returns true
$postcode->postcode(); // returns a normalised string: B5 5SE
$postcode->prefix(); // returns B5
$postcode->suffix(); // returns 5SE

```

###  Health Score

27

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LowBetter than 47% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity6

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity63

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

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###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

3812d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5082?v=4)[Ross Riley](/maintainers/rossriley)[@rossriley](https://github.com/rossriley)

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