street_address.rb

Path: lib/street_address.rb
Last Update: Thu Feb 18 18:19:37 +0000 2010

Usage:

    StreetAddress::US.parse("1600 Pennsylvania Ave, washington, dc")

Valid Address Formats

    1600 Pennsylvania Ave Washington DC 20006
    1600 Pennsylvania Ave #400, Washington, DC, 20006
    1600 Pennsylvania Ave Washington, DC
    1600 Pennsylvania Ave #400 Washington DC
    1600 Pennsylvania Ave, 20006
    1600 Pennsylvania Ave #400, 20006
    1600 Pennsylvania Ave 20006
    1600 Pennsylvania Ave #400 20006

Valid Intersection Formats

    Hollywood & Vine, Los Angeles, CA
    Hollywood Blvd and Vine St, Los Angeles, CA
    Mission Street at Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA
    Hollywood & Vine, Los Angeles, CA, 90028
    Hollywood Blvd and Vine St, Los Angeles, CA, 90028
    Mission Street at Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA, 90028

License

    Copyright (c) 2007 Riderway (Derrek Long, Nicholas Schlueter)

    Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
    a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
    "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
    without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
    distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
    permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
    the following conditions:

    The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
    included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

    THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
    EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
    MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
    NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
    LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
    OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
    WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Notes

    If parts of the address are omitted from the original string
    the accessor will be nil in StreetAddress::US::Address.

    Example:
    address = StreetAddress::US.parse("1600 Pennsylvania Ave, washington, dc")
    assert address.postal_code.nil?

Acknowledgements

    This gem is a near direct port of the perl module Geo::StreetAddress::US
    originally written by Schuyler D. Erle.  For more information see
    http://search.cpan.org/~sderle/Geo-StreetAddress-US-0.99/

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