On Jun 19, 2008, at 3:57 AM, Nathan Nobbe wrote:
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 ;)
As someone that works with the US postal service on a daily basis, I
can tell you that the post office prefers all addresses to be in
UPPERCASE. They do this for readability by both the automation
equipment and the actual workers. The only time you would want to have
a mixed case address was if you were doing a mail merge and printed
the address on the inside of the letter, it looks better there in
mixed case. And if that is what you want/need I can recommend some
software that costs about $1,300 a year that does just that...
<pitch>
Or I could periodically run your list through our software for a small
fee :)
On the bright side though, Not only would I be able to fix the case to
how you want it, Even with all those dutch names I see around me at
least. But I could verify that the address exists and is valid. Even
run it through the national change of address database to get the most
up to date address :)
</pitch>
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