On Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 02:44 PM, JSheble wrote:
> I ask this here because PHP developers are notoriously famous for
> knowing RegExp... the project in question isn't for PHP, but perhaps
> you can still be a bit of a help?
>
> I need help in formulating a RegExp that'll detect PO Box addresses...
> the problem is the many different ways a PO Box can be expressed..
>
> PO Box
> PO
> P.O. Box
> P O
> P O Box
> PMB
> etc...
>
> Anyone care to help out a bit? I would greatly apperciate it!!!!
Would /^[POBXpobx .]{1,8}$/ do it? If you need numbers too, you could
add 0-9 and change the max from 8 to 13 and probably be pretty safe.
Erik
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Erik Price
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Media Lab, H.H. Brown
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