The Address Constants File (addressConstants*.cfg) (Understanding the Sun Match Engine)

Understanding the Sun Match Engine

The Address Constants File (addressConstants*.cfg)

The address constants file defines certain information about the standardization files used for processing address data, primarily the number of lines contained in each file. The number of lines specified here must be equal to or greater than the number of lines actually contained in each file. The constants file for United States data is in the Standardization node of the project and is named addressConstants.cfg; the constants file for the other domains is located under the domain name node.

Table 15 lists and describes each parameter in the constants file. The files referenced by these parameters are described on the following pages.

Table 15 Address Constants File Parameters


Parameter	Description
maxWords	The maximum number of words in a given address field.
clueArraySize	The maximum number of lines in the address clues file (`addressClueAbbrev*.dat`).
patternArraySize	The maximum number of lines in the patterns file (`addressPatterns*.dat`).
maxPattSize	The maximum length (in characters) of any pattern in the address patterns file.
imageSize	The maximum length of an input address field.
nameOutputFieldSize	The maximum output length of a street or property name.
numberOutputFieldSize	The maximum output length of a house number or rural route number within the structure identifier or post office box fields.
directionOutputFieldSize	The maximum output length of a directional field (prefix or suffix).
typeOutputFieldSize	The maximum output length of a street type field (prefix or suffix).
prefixOutputFieldSize	The maximum length of a number prefix field.
suffixOutputFieldSize	The maximum length of a number suffix field.
extensionOutputFieldSize	The maximum output length of any extension field.
extrainfoOutputFieldSize	The maximum output length of any miscellaneous information that is not recognized as a known type.