Need Help with Split

Ruby
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I have a list of records that need to be split between the address and
the city. Here is some of the data:

-16 Bonner StreetHartford,-CT
-450 Main StreetHartford,-CT
-812 Farmington AvenueWest Hartford,-CT
-25 Forest Street No. 18Stamford,-CT
-25 Forest Street No. 6AStamford,-CT
-1450 Main StreetBridgeport,-CT

If you notice, the address butts directly up against the city name and
the only thing that is consistant it that the city always starts with a
capital letter (but can be more than one word).

If I could find a way to split where a lower case letter butts directly
against an Upper case letter, that might be a good start.

example: StreetHartford => if I could split between the lower case t and
the upper case H that are directly next to each other?

thanks

atomic

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On Dec 14, 1:05pm, “A. Mcbomb” [email protected] wrote:

If you notice, the address butts directly up against the city name and

atomic

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DATA.each{|s|
city = s.reverse[ /^.?,.?[:upper:]/m ].reverse
street = s[0, s.size - city.size]
puts street
puts city
}

END
-16 Bonner StreetHartford,-CT
-450 Main StreetHartford,-CT
-812 Farmington AvenueWest Hartford,-CT
-25 Forest Street No. 18Stamford,-CT
-25 Forest Street No. 6AStamford,-CT
-1450 Main StreetBridgeport,-CT

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On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:05 PM, A. Mcbomb [email protected]
wrote:

I have a list of records that need to be split between the address and
the city. Here is some of the data:

If I could find a way to split where a lower case letter butts directly
against an Upper case letter, that might be a good start.

/tmp$ cat i.rb
s = <<END
-16 Bonner StreetHartford,-CT
-450 Main StreetHartford,-CT
-812 Farmington AvenueWest Hartford,-CT
-25 Forest Street No. 18Stamford,-CT
-25 Forest Street No. 6AStamford,-CT
-1450 Main StreetBridgeport,-CT
END

require ‘pp’

pp s.scan(/-(.?[a-zA-Z\d])([A-Z][a-z].)/)

/tmp$ ruby i.rb
[[“16 Bonner Street”, “Hartford,-CT”],
[“450 Main Street”, “Hartford,-CT”],
[“812 Farmington Avenue”, “West Hartford,-CT”],
[“25 Forest Street No. 18”, “Stamford,-CT”],
[“25 Forest Street No. 6A”, “Stamford,-CT”],
[“1450 Main Street”, “Bridgeport,-CT”]]