Re: seperate streetname from number

At 17:17 11.03.2003, André Sannerholt said: --------------------[snip]-------------------- >If for example >$variable="Hauptstraße 15"; > >$variable_string[0] should be "Hauptstraße" >$variable_string[1] should be "15" > >So I need a function that recognizes a number and explodes the variable at >that very position. >It's important that the thing also works when $variable="Hauptstraße15"; >without any space. Else it would have been easy to do with the explode >function... --------------------[snip]-------------------- try a preg_match like (untested): if (preg_match('/^\s*([^0-9]*)\s*([0-9].*)\s*$/', $address, $aresult)) { $address = $aresult[1]; $number = $aresult[2]; } else { $address = trim($address); $number = null; } Note that preg_match will return false here if no number is available in $address. Leading and trailing spaces are trimmed from $address and $number, either by the regular expression, or by the trim() function in case of a no-match. Note also that this will fail for US-style addresses like "9th street", moving everything in $number, leaving $address empty. -- >O Ernest E. Vogelsinger (\) ICQ #13394035 ^ http://www.vogelsinger.at/