Splitting Mailing Addresses

[Ahkamden]

Can someone point me in the direction of how to split a single address into parts like taking '123 west ave' into:

$house = '123'
$street = 'west ave'

I'm not familiar with preg_match but thought it might be able to handle this? My other thought was a chunk split, but my problem with that is some addresses may be 123, another 1234, 1234A, etc. So I'm not sure what to do with all of those variations.

[penders]

Can someone point me in the direction of how to split a single address into parts like taking '123 west ave'

Does your address always follow the format 'house street' (ie. house -space- street), or is it more complicated than that with possible town and zip codes?

eg. (Split on the first -space-)

$address = '123 west ave'; 
$splitChar = strpos($address,' '); 
$house = substr($address,0,$splitChar); 
$street = substr($address,$splitChar+1);

Should work for your example (inc. 1234 or 1234A), but might break at other times?

...My other thought was a chunk split...

You could perhaps explode() [uk2.php.net] the string on the -space- and pull the parts from the resulting array?