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medk
medk

Reputation: 9529

Splitting an address string with regex

How to split a string like this with a regular expression?

Route de la Comba 32 1484 Aumont (FR)

Chemin de la Vignetta 1 1617 Remaufens (FR)

Route du Village 136 1609 Besencens (FR)

NB: Between 32 and 1484 there are 2 spaces (displayed as one space in this question)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 218

Answers (2)

The fourth bird
The fourth bird

Reputation: 163287

If the format is always the same you could try using implode and explode with a double whitespace:

$str = "Route de la Comba 32  1484 Aumont (FR)";
$splitByDoubleSpace = explode("  ", $str);
$splitBySingleSpace = explode(" ", $splitByDoubleSpace[1]);
$city = implode(" ", array_slice($splitBySingleSpace, 1)); // Return the array except the first entry

echo sprintf(
    'Address: %s<br>Postal code: %s<br>City: %s',
    $splitByDoubleSpace[0],
    $splitBySingleSpace[0],
    implode(" ", array_slice($splitBySingleSpace, 1))
);

That would give you:

Address: Route de la Comba 32
Postal code: 1484
City: Aumont (FR)

Demo Php

Upvotes: 0

Toto
Toto

Reputation: 91385

How about:

preg_match('/^(.+?)\h{2}(\d{4,5})\h+(.+)$/', $inputString, $matches);

Explanation:

^           : beginning of line
  (.+?)     : group 1, 1 or more any character, not greedy, address
  \h{2}     : 2 horizontal spaces
  (\d{4,5}) : group 2, 4 upto 5 digits, postal code
  \h+       : 1 horizontal space
  (.+)      : group 3, 1 or more any character, city
$           : end of line

Upvotes: 1

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