--- On Tue, 7/7/09, Karl Mowatt-Wilson <k...@free.net.nz> wrote: > I have no clue for languages other than English, but I > think that any > highway name string ending with a space and 2 letters (and > optional dot) > should be viewed with suspicion. This may be best > suited for an > "aggressive check" mode, though :-)
Yes, but in the examples given they can be 3 or 4 characters as well, we're also not just dealing with the Australian variants here and from memory German street abbreviations are at the start, not the end so I wanted to be very very specific about this. > It looks to me like you're using regexes - I don't know > which flavour, Java flavoured, and I'm not talking about tasting coffee here :) > exactly, but I suspect that your "(|\.)" could just be > "\.?" - > indicating zero or one of the dot character. You are probably correct, it's taken me a number of years to get my head round regex for the amount I dabble in at present, and I have no idea which would be more efficient for the parser... _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au