[OSM-dev] extracting house-number from string

Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org
Sat Mar 14 14:47:21 GMT 2009


Hi,

Stefan Breunig wrote:
> True about \d. But this regex doesn't match any housenumber in "3rd
> street". It matches
> [number][maybe a single letter][word boundary].

Could someone from the US shed some light on this type of address:

5325 E. Pacific Coast Hwy
Long Beach, CA 90804

The "E." is, to the best of my knowledge, just a designation of which 
side of the road the building is on; it is neither part of the street 
name (the street is "Pacific Coast Highway", not "East Pacific Coast 
Highway"), nor is it a part of the house number (there is no 
corresponding 5325 A, B, C, D, nor a 5325 W for that matter).

How do you normally treat the "E." when recording addresses in databases 
and so on? (Please don't say "we have a middle initial for addresses" ;-)

Bye
Frederik

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