Address Template in Magento 2.1.3

Question

I'm trying to modify the address template in Magento through admin>stores>configuration>customer>customer configuration>Address Templates> HTML

Can someone tell me the use of {{depend}} and {{if}} in the template or help me modify this one.

In the checkout page, I want to interchange the position of the postcode and city. Also, put the country on top of it and put the street below. This is the order:

• Country
• Postcode
• Region
• City
• Street

This is the default:

{{depend prefix}}{{var prefix}} {{/depend}}{{var firstname}} {{depend middlename}}{{var middlename}} {{/depend}}{{var lastname}}{{depend suffix}} {{var suffix}}{{/depend}}{{depend firstname}}<br/>{{/depend}}
{{depend company}}{{var company}}<br />{{/depend}}
{{if street1}}{{var street1}}<br />{{/if}}
{{depend street2}}{{var street2}}<br />{{/depend}}
{{depend street3}}{{var street3}}<br />{{/depend}}
{{depend street4}}{{var street4}}<br />{{/depend}}
{{if city}}{{var city}},  {{/if}}{{if region}}{{var region}}, {{/if}}{{if postcode}}{{var postcode}}{{/if}}<br/>
{{var country}}<br/>
{{depend telephone}}T: {{var telephone}}{{/depend}}
{{depend fax}}<br/>F: {{var fax}}{{/depend}}
{{depend vat_id}}<br/>VAT: {{var vat_id}}{{/depend}}

This is my my modified version:

{{depend prefix}}{{var prefix}} {{/depend}}{{var firstname}} {{depend middlename}}{{var middlename}} {{/depend}}{{var lastname}}{{depend suffix}} {{var suffix}}{{/depend}}{{depend firstname}}<br/>{{/depend}}
{{depend company}}{{var company}}<br />{{/depend}}
{{var country}}<br/>
{{if postcode}}{{var postcode}},  {{/if}}{{if region}}{{var region}}, {{/if}}{{if city}}{{var city}}{{/if}}<br/>
{{if street1}}{{var street1}}<br />{{/if}}
{{depend street2}}{{var street2}}<br />{{/depend}}
{{depend street3}}{{var street3}}<br />{{/depend}}
{{depend street4}}{{var street4}}<br />{{/depend}}
{{depend telephone}}T: {{var telephone}}{{/depend}}
{{depend fax}}<br/>F: {{var fax}}{{/depend}}
{{depend vat_id}}<br/>VAT: {{var vat_id}}{{/depend}}

But it is not working.

Answer 1

{{depend prefix}}{{var prefix}} {{/depend}}{{var firstname}} {{depend middlename}}{{var middlename}} {{/depend}}{{var lastname}}{{depend suffix}} {{var suffix}}{{/depend}}{{depend firstname}}<br/>{{/depend}}
{{depend company}}{{var company}}<br />{{/depend}}
{{var country}}<br/>
{{if postcode}}{{var postcode}}<br/>{{/if}}
{{if region}}{{var region}}<br/>{{/if}}
{{if city}}{{var city}}<br/>{{/if}}
{{depend telephone}}T: {{var telephone}}{{/depend}}
{{depend fax}}<br/>F: {{var fax}}{{/depend}}
{{depend vat_id}}<br/>VAT: {{var vat_id}}{{/depend}}

I'm not an expert so not sure if this is going to work (and i don't have anything to test it with). But as far as i can see these rules apply : (source : depend and if/else in transaction emails)

• If statement is used when you want it to output an else (not sure why magento uses it here)
• Depend statements do the same thing but without the else
• 
  tags go before or after the var but always between the depend/if
• A good line of code exists out of depend/if and a var (not sure why country does not have this)

Can you try this and give me feedback? Like i said i don't know anything about it but i would like to work it out together.