On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Paul Novitski <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At 6/18/2008 09:38 PM, Nathan Nobbe wrote: > >> $streetAddr = "817 17th ST, DENVER COLORADO"; >> echo ucwords(strtolower($streetAddr)); >> // 817 17th St, Denver Colorado >> > > > I'd like to mention that, in practical usage, capitalizing the first letter > of every word does not correctly capitalize addresses in most languages > expressed in Roman script. In North America we see numerous common > exceptions such as PO, APO, NE/NW/SE..., MacDonald, Macdonald, deCamp, > D'Angelo, de la Rosa, Apt. 3E, et cetera, et cetera. If you're serious > about correcting a mailing list for upper- & lowercase, I suggest you build > or use a replacement dictionary that's smart about postal addresses and > smart about the languages you're liable to encounter. If you're in North > America, a simple correcting algorithm is pretty much impossible because of > the damage done by "Ellis Island" that has rendered the spelling of names > arbitrary, even random, and often incorrect relative to their origins. Good > luck! But don't give up -- as Xeno will attest, your earnest attempt to > reach the tree with your arrow will gain praise even if it's doomed never to > actually arrive. right; this is very valid, and while i was tempted to delve into such tirade myself i held back to answer the question as directly as possible. but yes, the post i made before is not something i would ever use to parse and store / use an address supplied by a user, nor would i recommend it be used in such a way be anyone else ;) -nathan
