Question

I’m trying to extract two pieces of information from a location.

An example location would be:
Hocking Parade, Sorrento WA 6020

Where I’m trying to extract “Sorrento” and “6020”.

“Hocking Parade” is a street that I don’t need, which will always be followed by a comma. “WA” is a constant. The post code is 4 digits.

EDIT: Should clarify the date is actually in the format:
<span>Hocking Parade, Sorrento WA 6020</span>

Works:
preg_match('/^.*, (.*) [A-Z]{2} (\d{4})$/','Hocking Parade, Sorrento WA 6020',$uTitle);

Doesn’t work:
preg_match('/^.*, (.*) [A-Z]{2} (\d{4})$/','<span>Hocking Parade, Sorrento WA 6020</span>',$uTitle);

Answer 1

This is what you need:

$address= "Hocking Parade, Sorrento WA 6020";
preg_match_all(', (.*?) WA (\d{4})/i', $address, $result, PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);
$city = $result[1][0];
$zip = $result[2][0];

cheers,