Fail if bad state abbreviation supplied

Internal function that fails if a bad state abbreviation is provided.

Usage

failState(state)

Arguments

state

Any abbreviation for one of the 49 contiguous states:

• AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NV, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NC, ND, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI, WY

See also

Other failure functions: failBTPI(), failCR(), failDLdate(), failDLstate(), failProofed(), failTF(), failWidths(), failYear()

Author

Abby Walter, abby_walter@fws.gov