From: luke <l.d.u.n.c.a.l.f.e@...> (dot)
Date: 2005-11-17T20:32:18+09:00
Subject: Re: extracting lines from an address

there might be a cleaner way of doing it, but this will work:

# assign database entry to a variable
address = "12, HouseName
           Street
           City
           Country"

# make an array from the string, dividing each line by line breaks
lines = address.split("\n")

# each line is an element in the array, strip takes whitespace out
address_line1 = lines[0].strip
address_line2 = lines[1].strip
address_line3 = lines[2].strip
address_line4 = lines[3].strip





"Kris Leech" <krisleech@interkonect.com> wrote in message
news:80905211372dc9672c5c6dfa4b617c9a@ruby-forum.com...
> I have an address stored in mysql as a text field.
> I'm using ActiveRecord to access the field.
> But how do I get each line of the address in to their own strings?
>
> eg.
>
> Address = "12, HouseName
>            Street
>            City
>            Country"
>
> -->
>
> Address_line1 = "12, HouseName"
> Address_line2 = "Street"
> Address_line3 = "City"
> Address_line4 = "Country"
>
>
> Many thanks, K.
>
>
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