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Om3ga
Om3ga

Reputation: 32833

validating home address in jquery or javascript issue

I am trying to validate home address that is street address. But it returns false everytime. Here is my code

validateAddress: function (val) {
            console.log('val: ' + val);
            var streetregex = /^[a-zA-Z0-9-\/] ?([a-zA-Z0-9-\/]|[a-zA-Z0-9-\/] )*[a-zA-Z0-9-\/]$/;
            if ( streetregex.test(val) ) {
                console.log('true');
            } else {
                console.log('false');
            }

        }

val has street address in this format street name streetnumber, city.

How can I fix it so it correctly validates my address?

Update

Here is my DEMO

if you give address like this Street name 18, Helsinki. It returns false whereas I want it to return true for these sort of addresses.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 8525

Answers (1)

Dan Dascalescu
Dan Dascalescu

Reputation: 152027

This regexp will do what you ask for, but I doubt it's useful for any real-life application:

var regexp = /^[\w\s.-]+\d+,\s*[\w\s.-]+$/;
console.log(regexp.test('Main St. 123, New York'));
console.log(regexp.test('123 Wall St., New York'));

​ Fiddle at http://jsfiddle.net/dandv/fxxTK/5/

The way it works is:

match a sequence of alphanumeric characters, spaces, period or dash, e.g. "Abel-Johnson St."
followed by a number
followed by a comma
followed by another sequence of alphanumeric characters, spaces, period or dash (e.g. "St. Mary-Helen")

This is very frail, however, and you should probably simply not attempt to validate street addresses.

Upvotes: 6

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