From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2006-01-02T22:33:58+09:00
Subject: Re: The "ruby way" to break apart a name?

Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@gmail.com> writes:

> This reminds me of U.S. street addresses.  I (on and off) do work that
> interfaces with a huge IBM mainframe application. That system has
> many, many separate fields for street addresses:
> Number, Direction, Street/Route, Quad, Suffix, Apartment, Line2, etc.
> I laughed at the way the original engineers had overbuilt. Ha ha ha.
> ...
> ...
> Then I had to write code that took a single address string and split
> it into its component parts, and I stopped laughing.
> e.g. 123 N. NESTOR LANE RD. SE #10B
>
> Life is complicated, it turns out.

And what's the point of storing that in different fields?

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Christian Neukirchen  <chneukirchen@gmail.com>  http://chneukirchen.org