Re: Parsing postal addresses

Henry Spencer <henry@zoo.toronto.edu>
19 Oct 1997 00:54:36 -0400

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From: Henry Spencer <henry@zoo.toronto.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 19 Oct 1997 00:54:36 -0400
Organization: SP Systems, Toronto
References: 97-10-067 97-10-080
Keywords: parse

John Lindsay <lindsay_j@rmc.ca> wrote:
>> I am looking for information on parsing postal addresses ...
>
>Seriously, in the face of a probable mess of a problem like this,
>consider SNOBOL4, and in particular the SPITBOL compiler for SNOBOL4.
>This system and its cousins have bailed out more than one programmer
>in the face of nests of various incongruous data formats...


A less-drastic alternative is to use one of several freely-redistributable
regular-expression packages in C. They don't have quite the power of
SNOBOL4 or Icon, but there's also less learning overhead. For example,
ftp://ftp.zoo.toronto.edu/pub/bookregexp.shar is the earliest and simplest
(and probably most widely used, to judge by the mail I get).
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