Re: String parsing help

Or (untested): $String = 'NORTH LITTLE ROCK AR 72118-5227'; $Bits = split(strrev($String), '[[:space:]]+', 3); $Zip = strrev($Bits[0]); $State = strrev($Bits[1]); $City = strrev($Bits[2]); ...could also use preg_split() - steve At 4:44 PM -0400 8/20/03, "CPT John W. Holmes" <holmes072000@charter.net> wrote:

From: "Jonatan Pugliese." <jonatan_pugliese@aca.org.ar>

From: "Matt Matijevich" <matijevich@alliancetechnologies.net>

I have have a string that I need to split into 3 different variables: City,State, and Zip. Here is a couple examples of the strings I need to parse: ANCHORAGE AK 99507-6420 JUNEAU AK 99801

NORTH LITTLE ROCK AR 72118-5227

Does anyone have an idea how I could slit this into the appropriate variables, maybe some kind of regular expression? I cant use the space character to split the data because some of the city names have spaces in them.

$vector=split( " ", $string, ); $City=$vector[0]; $State=$vector[1]; $Zip=$vector[2]:

Umm, no. then you'll have $City = "North", $State = "Little" and $Zip = "Rock" with the last example. The following works: <?php $str = "NORTH LITTLE ROCK AR 72118-5227 JUNEAU AK 99801 ANCHORAGE AK 99507-6420 NORTH CARO MI 48732 "; preg_match_all('/^(.*)([a-z]{2})\s+([0-9]{5}(-[0-9]{4})?)/im',$str,$matches) ; $count = count($matches[1]); echo $count . ' addresses found:<br />'; for($x=0;$x<$count;$x++) {

    $city = trim($matches[1][$x]);
    $state = trim($matches[2][$x]);
    $zip = trim($matches[3][$x]);
    echo "City: $city, State: $state, ZIP: $zip<br />";

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