* Thus wrote Matt Matijevich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> 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.
well if the state is always 2 chars and zip is always at least 5
digits then you can grab the info with preg_match:
$string = 'ANCHORAGE AK 99507-1234';
preg_match('/(.*?)\s+([A-Z]{2})\s+(\d{5}[-0-9]*)/', $string, $matches);
$city = $matches[1];
$state = $matches[2];
$zip = $matches[3];
Thats should work fine in most cases.
Curt
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