From: Dominic Sisneros <dom@...>
Date: 2005-10-08T19:10:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Code for title-casing (US) snail addresses?

rpardee@gmail.com wrote:

>Hey All,
>
>I've got to suck some address info out of a db, where it is stored in
>all caps, like so:
>
>   14 WEST 21ST ST
>   742 NW EVERGREEN TERRACE
>   PO BOX 13
>
>And I want to pretty up the casing:
>
>   14 West 21st St
>   742 NW Evergreen Terrace
>   PO Box 13
>
>So it's mostly just title-casing, and then dealing w/certain special
>components like 'NE', 'SW', 'PO' and so forth.
>
>I've actually got some vb.net code that I could convert, but I thought
>I'd ask here whether someone's already got something they've sweated
>over before I did.
>
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I think perl has the most robust module for this and other geocoding 
type of methods.  I was thinking of porting it
but I am not too comfortable with Regular Expressions.  Anyway the links 
is below:.
http://search.cpan.org/author/SDERLE/Geo-StreetAddress-US-0.99/US.pm



>Also--more concretely: for simple title-casing, is this the
>easiest/best approach?
>
>pretty_address = my_address_var.split.each do |c| c.capitalize
>end.join(" ")
>
>Or is there something more graceful/efficient?
>
>Thanks!
>
>-Roy
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