[Developers] Freebase newbie: simple question

Reilly Hayes rfh at metaweb.com
Thu Feb 26 00:14:00 UTC 2009


Pito,

Your name is familiar.  Did you work at a firm called Software House  
in the early 1980s?

-reilly hayes



On Feb 25, 2009, at 3:42 PM, R. Pito Salas wrote:

> I have a simple need. I think Freebase would be perfect for it.
>
> Given the full name or abbreviated name of a USA state, give me the
> two letter code for it. So:
>
> Massachusetts => MA
> Mass => MA
> MA => MA
> Foobar => <no such state>
>
> I poked around the site and the apis but it's quite overwhelming. I am
> working in Ruby btw if someone has actual code that would help.  
> Thanks!!
>
> -- Pito
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