PO Box Patterns

[lg777]

I need help with PO Box searches. Any combination of P.O. Box, PO BOX, P O Box, etc...

I tried some perl patterns I found on the internet and they don't work in Textpipe so maybe there's a better Easy Pattern method.

What I'm trying to do is look at an address field and if I see any mention of post office box as described above, I want to remove it.

[DataMystic Support]

Can you paste the examples you found? There might be an easy fix.

A simple EasyPattern would be:

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[ ('P O' or 'PO' or 'P.O.' or 'P.O' ), ' Box' ]

[dfhtextpipe]

Methinks the suggested EasyPattern doesn't cover the uppercase "BOX".

[DataMystic Support]

You're right David - normally you would not check the Match Case option, and just let TextPipe do its thing.

But in this case it is important to ignore false positives, so Match Case should be checked, and the EasyPattern changed to:

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[ ('P O' or 'PO' or 'P.O.' or 'P.O' ), 1+whitespace, ( 'Box' or 'BOX' ) ]