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Surprising results for validate on STATE with a DXCC without administrative enum
The current behavior of adifmt validate
on the STATE
field for a DXCC which doesn't have entries in the Primary_Administrative_Subdivision
enumeration is:
- If the state matches a value from a different DXCC, it's a warning
- If no other DXCC has a subdivision with that code, it's an error
For example, Azerbaijan (DXCC 18) doesn't have any ADIF-specified subdivisions, so BAB
and BA
are warnings (matching Bratislava and Bahia, among others) but ABS
and QAX
do not. (See ISO 3166-2:AZ.)
The warning behavior holds even if the DXCC does have administrative regions in the enum, which means validate
only issues a warning if you mistakenly log ON
in the United States instead of Canada.
Since the STATE
field is an enumeration (and not a string like SUBMODE
), it's presumably invalid to have a value in that field if the primary administrative subdivisions for that country aren't enumerated in the ADIF spec, whether or not the state code would be valid for a different country. I wonder if it would be reasonable to incorporate all of ISO 3166-2 in the ADIF enumeration spec.