AU State generator

Last modified: April 3, 2025

The AU State generator creates simulated data for Australian states and territories, such as New South Wales (NSW), Victoria (VIC), Queensland (QLD), and others. It is used for testing, development, or data simulation purposes in systems that require Australian regional data, like address forms, logistics databases, or geographic applications.

Note

If you select Australia from the Country-specific data list on the Options page of the Data Generator Project Properties wizard, the AU State generator will be applied to columns that meet the matching rules, replacing the default (United States)generator.

Generator properties

The table provides key details about the generator, including the short name, sample of the generated data, the supported data types, and whether it is specific to a particular country.

Short name	Example of generated data	Data type matching	Country-specific
AU State	Queensland, Tasmania, Western Australia, …	charactercharacter varyingtext	AU

Matching rules

The generator can be assigned to a column that matches any of the following rules:

The column name is ‘State’, regardless of the table name.
The column name starts with ‘Addr’ and ends with ‘3’, ‘4’, ‘5’, or ‘6’, with any or no characters in between, regardless of the table name.
The column name is ‘name’, and it belongs to a table whose name contains ‘State’ or ‘Province’, preceded or followed by any or no characters.

Configure additional options

The tool allows you to set additional options:

In the File to load data from box, select … to choose a file to load data from. The default path to the file that stores a list of cities is C:\Users\Public\Documents\Devart\dbForge Studio for PostgreSQL\Data Generators\AUStates.txt.
Select the Trim left trailing spaces checkbox to remove spaces, tabs, and other non-printing characters on the LEFT of each string.
Select the Trim right trailing spaces checkbox to remove spaces, tabs, and other non-printing characters on the RIGHT of each string (does not remove line breaks).