Address Validation

[cfmx2008]

Hi All,

I'm creating a form that it will parse a valid address in the address1 field from an address library to make sure this is a valid address. Here is the problem: The address is followed by the city and zip code inside of my address1 field. It looks like this:
Address 1: 10142 sterling ter. Rockville, 20850

I need to clean the 2 tabs between the data of the address1 and Rockville, 20850 using javascript. I'll appreciate if you could help me.

[gits]

hi ...

tabs? could you give an example of the output you need?

kind regards

[cfmx2008]

Sorry, looks like the space beteween the address1 and Rockville doesn't show in the first message.

It's like this: 10142 sterling ter "space" " space" Rockille 20850.

space is as big as a tab.

[cfmx2008]

Sorry, looks like the space beteween the address1 and Rockville doesn't show in the first message.

It's like this: 10142 sterling ter "space" " space" Rockille 20850.

space is as big as a tab.

The output I need is: 10142 sterling ter.

[gits]

hi ... :)

have a look at the following example:

var s = '10142 sterling ter. Rockville, 20850';
 
s = s.match(/([^ \t]+)/g);
 
s = s.splice(0, 3).join(' ');
 
alert(s);
 

we may use a regExp here to match the words only and no spaces and tabs first. next we 're-join' the first 3 elements of the result-array that we got before.

kind regards

[cfmx2008]

Hi gits,
Thank you so much for your suggestion. Please take a look at the whole javascript below:

<script>
 
var url1="http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/zcl_0_results.jsp?visited=1&pagenumber=0&firmname=&address2="; 
 
// 2 Broadway
 
var url2="&address1=&city="; //NEW YORK
 
var url3="&state=";//NY
 
var url4="&urbanization=&zip5=";
 
 
 
function getAddress( address1, city, state)
 
{
 
if(address1=="" || city=="" || state =="")
 
{
 
 alert('fill in all fields.');
 
 
 return;
 
}
 
var fullurl=url1+address1+url2+city+url3+state+url4;
 
var x=createXMLHttp();
 
x.open("GET",fullurl, false);
 
x.Send(null);
 
var res=x.responseText;
 
try{
 
// strip off everything before where the result starts
 
var startpos = res.indexOf("<td headers=\"full\"")+124;
 
res=res.substring(startpos)
 
if(res.toUpperCase().indexOf("<HTML")>0)
 
{
 
alert('Address is not valid.');
 
return;
 
}
 
// strip off everything after the result
 
var endpos=res.indexOf("</td>")-10;
 
res=res.substring(0,endpos);
 
//clean up line breaks
 
res=res.replace("<br />","");
 
res=res.replace("<br/>","");
 
res=res.toUpperCase();
 
// clean off HTML Spaces
 
res=res.replace("&NBSP;", " ");
 
res=res.replace("&NBSP;", " ");
 
res=res.replace("&NBSP;", " ");
 
res=res.replace("&NBSP;", " ");
 
<!---  res=res.replace("res.match("/t")[a-zA-Z]*", " ");  --->
 
 
var ad = 'address1';
 
ad = ad.match(/([^ \t]+)/g);
 
ad = ad.splice(0, 3).join(' ');
 
<!--- alert(ad); --->
 
 
document.getElementById('address1').value=res;
 
}
 
catch(e)
 
{
 
alert('Address is not valid.');
 
}
 
}
 

It get the full url as address and then it check the validity of the address, if not valid, it will replace the valid address in the address1 field. but the city and zipcode are added to the address and I don't want them. As you see I included your suggestion in the javascript as well. It clean the city and zip but the address validation doesn't work anymore. do you know why? Thank you so much for your support.

[gits]

actually the var ad is a string 'address1' and so the code will do nothing and you assign the res to the textfields value without stripping the tabs and spaces? ad should be res i think :)

[cfmx2008]

Doa... Thank you so much. Here is the changes I made.


<!---var res = 'address1'; --->

res = res.match(/([^ \t]+)/g);

res = res.splice(0, 3).join(' ');

<!--- alert(ad); --->


document.getElementById('address1').value=res;

I think I got it.

[gits]

cool ... glad to hear you got it working ... post in the forum anytime you have more questions :)

kind regards