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Regex

Week 2

For this exercise, I tried to write a regular expression to detect US addresses from a set of data.

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I first generated a set of fake data using chatGPT

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I used the https://regex101.com/ site to try out different variations to write a regex that detected US addresses (written in the standard format)

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Regex -> [^-\d{3,4}]\d{3,4}\s[A-Z][a-z].*\s(St),\s[A-Z][a-z].*,\s[A-Z]{2}\s\d{5}

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Results:

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