need help for a regex

[Alex Shi]

Hello folks,

I want to retrieve full name, city name, state and country from
following string:
"(Firstname Lastname - Traverse City, MI United States)"

I think maybe a regex can be a solution. However I don't have
much knowledge on it. I need help. Thanks in advance!

Alex Shi

 

[Tad McClellan]

I want to retrieve full name, city name, state and country from

Errr, what if the "country" does not _have_ "states"?

What if the country's states are not represented with
two upper case letters?

following string:
"(Firstname Lastname - Traverse City, MI United States)"

I think maybe a regex can be a solution.

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#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

$_ = '(Firstname Lastname - Traverse City, MI United States)';

if ( /\(([^-]*)\s*-\s*([^,]*),\s*([A-Z]{2})\s*([^)]*)/ ) {
print "name: $1\n";
print "city: $2\n";
print "state: $3\n";
print "country: $4\n";
}

 

[Alex Shi]

Many thanks to Tad, it really works for my situation )
However your post didn't come to my ISP's news server. I found it on
google's news group.

Alex

I want to retrieve full name, city name, state and country from

Errr, what if the "country" does not _have_ "states"?

What if the country's states are not represented with
two upper case letters?

following string:
"(Firstname Lastname - Traverse City, MI United States)"

I think maybe a regex can be a solution.

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#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

$_ = '(Firstname Lastname - Traverse City, MI United States)';

if ( /\(([^-]*)\s*-\s*([^,]*),\s*([A-Z]{2})\s*([^)]*)/ ) {
print "name: $1\n";
print "city: $2\n";
print "state: $3\n";
print "country: $4\n";
}
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