| Re: preg_match() oddities and question [message #176086 is a reply to message #176084] |
Wed, 23 November 2011 00:59   |
Thomas 'PointedEars'
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Peter H. Coffin wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:30:45 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> Quite right. Is worse than you can possibly iagine at leats here in te
>> UK, where addresses can be as little as 2 lines long or up to 6..
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>> So
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>> 10 Wonkers place, LONDON EC3 7QY is a typical TOWN address
>>
>> Out in the sticks you might get
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>> Apartment 4b, the Old Town House, Shire Lane, Recketts Green, Nr
>> Stonehouse, Gloucestershire GL13 6AH
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>> And if that comes at you without commas, god help you.
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>> I have spent DAYS taking name/address fields and parsing them *manually*
>> into structured tables...
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> It is at this point that most people that have an actual need to solve
> these kinds of problems turn to the available commercial software and
> decide to solve it with money instead of manpower.
Where the question must be allowed: How came that the data has not been
requested and stored in a structured form to begin with? That is, for
example, why only an address field in a form – why not a street, house
number aso. field? ISTM that we are seeing here an example of a mistake
made at the beginning which overall cost naturally grows larger and larger
as the project is nearing completion.
PointedEars
--
Danny Goodman's books are out of date and teach practices that are
positively harmful for cross-browser scripting.
-- Richard Cornford, cljs, <cife6q$253$1$8300dec7(at)news(dot)demon(dot)co(dot)uk> (2004)
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