@zerodep/address-directional NPM

@zerodep/address-directional

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A parser to find where a directional name or abbreviation is in a string.

This function will return an array of results, with the most likely result being first. If a directional is not found an empty array will be returned.

Full documentation is available at the zerodep.app page.

Signature

declare const addressDirectional: (address: string) => Addressdirectional[];

interface Addressdirectional {
  directional: string;
  source: string;
  ndx: number;
  length: number;
}

The addressDirectional function has the following parameters:

address - an address string

The addressDirectional result has the following properties:

directional - the standardized directional value
source - the string that matched to identify the directional
ndx - the position in the string where the source match starts
length - the length of the matched string

Examples

All @zerodep packages support both ESM and CJS formats, each complete with Typescript typings.

// ESM
import { addressDirectional } from '@zerodep/address-directional';

// CJS
const { addressDirectional } = require('@zerodep/address-directional');

// well formatted address
addressDirectional('1234 Main Street East, Los Angeles CA, US');
//  [
//    {
//      directional: 'E',
//      source: 'East',
//      ndx: 17,
//      length: 4,
//    },
//  ]

// no results found
addressDirectional('unknown');
// []

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