Re: reg split address

Terry Romine wrote:

I have a submit field that may have an address formatted like:

    1234 main st
or may just be the street name:       main

I need to split the number off if present so I can test against database fields. I need a eregi, split or preg_split that could do that. I've tried a few and either get the whole string in the first array element, or it fails to see the digits.

  if(eregi('[:digits:]+',$streetSearch,$streetArray))    die("num: $streetArray[0] name=$streetArray[1]");
  if(eregi('([\d]+) (.+)',$streetSearch,$streetArray)) die("num: $streetArray[0] name=$streetArray[1]");
  list($streetNum,$streetName)=split('(\d+) ',$streetSearch);die($streetNum);

$streetArray=preg_split('/^(\d+) (.+)/',$streetSearch);

    die("street number: $streetArray[0] street name:$streetArray[1]");

any help would be appreciated. Terry

Why use a split? preg_match('/(\d*)(.*?)/', $streetString, $matches); $streetNumber = $matches[1]; $streetRemainder = $matches[2]; //maybe use trim()? -- -- paperCrane <Justin Patrin>