Question

Can anyone help me with a quick regex problem?

I have the following HTML:

555 Some Street Name<BR />
New Providence VA 22901-1311<BR />
United States<BR />

The first row is always the Street

Second row is City (which can have spaces) space State Abbv. space Zip hyphen 4 digit zip

Third row is the Country.

I need to break the HTML into a variable each. Can anyone provide a quick regex?

Edit: Maybe I wasn’t clear. I need the following:
Street address, City, State, Zip, 4Digit Zip, Country as individual variables.

Answer 1

555 Some Street Name<BR />
New Providence VA 22901-1311<BR />
United States<BR />

ok, for the first part, let’s split the lines

$array = explode('<BR />', $address);

now you need to get the informations from the second line to be parsed as well…

$array[1] = New Providence VA 22901-1311;

$tmp = explode(‘ ‘, $array[1]);

and all you need now is to set everything in the correct variable names

$fullZip = array_pop($tmp);
$zipArray = explode('-',$fullZip);
$zip = $zipArray[0];
$Digitzip = $zipArray[1];
$state = array_pop($tmp);
$providence = implode($tmp);
$country = $array[2];
$street = $array[0];