On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 11:54 -0600, jm wrote: > is there a function, module, script, etc. that converts all uppercase to > proper mixed case. this particular need is for an address list that is all > uppercase > > 1370 W 14TH ST > ADA,OK > 74837 > > i would like to convert it to > > 1370 W. 14th St. > Ada, OK > 74837
There was a postal module written by a person in Australia somewhere on cpan, cannot remember name and the details are at work. This may go somewhere along the road. This sort of thing is almost exclusively a list based application and the lists are built up by specialists over time. There are usually huge tables of spelling differences as well. for example St, Strt, Street => Street, St In your case I would have a table of full text states and state codes and translate them to the actual codes afterwards. Frankly the best way to deal with this is to build your input application so that you know what is a state and what is a suburb, you do have hope of doing something sensible then. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
