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Lingua-EN-AddressParse
(1.15)
Very useful module. A bit slow to start as it uses Parse::RecDescent, and if you have a lot of addresses from an unclean source then you will have to find an alternative way to parse them (e.g. with Regexp::Assemble). You can report failing addresses to the author via RT for his corpus.
Parsing addresses like this is a hard problem, and given that, this module is an excellent resource. 4 stars due to the hardness of the problem really.
kd - 2009-08-30T17:40:48 (permalink)
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Lingua-EN-AddressParse
(1.14)
Note: I am told by the author that the module has been completely rewritten, and many of the problems fixed. However, I am no longer working on a project that involved parsing addresses, so I cannot verify this.
Below are previous comments for for v1.11 (which was released in 2002). I do not know if they still apply.
One major problem is that (for US addresses, anyway) it doesn't work unless addresses are very simply formatted:
123 Maple Street, Anytown, ST 12345
Anything beyond that (apartment numbers, post boxes, squares and cross streets, etc.) and it returns nothing.
Often addresses don't fit a simple pattern. (If they all matched that pattern, I wouldn't care about finding a module...)
Worse: it uses Parse::RecDescent, so it takes a few seconds to parse a simple address.
If it worked for most addresses, I'd say the "interface" and "ease of use" were great. Alas...
One note: parsing addresses is a HARD problem.
Robert Rothenberg - 2005-07-21T02:32:15 (permalink)
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