NYCPHP Meetup

[Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg]

On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Dan Cech wrote:

> You may in fact want to go with a 3-input solution and grab the street,
> city and state separately, unless you can be guaranteed the user will
> put in the commas.

I agree with Dan. Addresses are weird and non-standard. For instance,
in Washington, DC, this is a typical address:

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC

The city is divided into four quadrants, NW, NE, SW, and SE, so people
append the region to the end of the street address.

> > B) In the second case, what I want to check for seems to be much
> > simpler, but I having no luck.
>
> You can change the above preg expression by removing the [.]? which will
> disallow the use of the . character in the address, however as you can
> see in the above expression, the . character is outside the brackets for
> the address, so it is discarded if it exists anyway.
>
> Otherwise, you would have to do a negative check for 'St.', ie look for
> St., and if not found then look for St without the full stop.

And what happens for people who live in:

1000 Broadway, New York, NY

There's no St or St. or (Ave, Ave., etc.) or anything else.

Using three boxes is easier if you can swing it.

-adam

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