Utility for conversting countries and state/provinces to different alphas

[chorton]

Would it be possible to take a country and/or state/province that I already have that uses the full names and convert that with this package to the alpha-2 / short value? I want to use the short values in the dropdowns, so I need a way to convert my given address to the short value I can pass to the component. Thoughts?

[benkeen]

Hey @chorton, fiddly one! I'm afraid this really needs to be a custom task you'll need to do on your end. A key component of this would be for you to get the full list of countries/province (your own strings) and for that you really need to first gather them up and put them into a convenient data structure (probably JSON). At that point you could handle the conversion.

The data source of the country/regions used by this repo is here:
https://github.com/country-regions/country-region-data

It contains a data.json file, which is exceedingly easy to parse the data you need.

Sorry I couldn't be more help - as I said: fiddly one!