Parsing street addresses in Ruby

Question

I am processing addresses into their respective field format for the database. I can get the house number out and the street type but trying to determine best method to get the

Answer 1

You could perhaps use something like:

^\S+ (.+?) \S+$

\S matches any non white space character

^ matches the beginning of the string

$ matches the end of the string

And (.+?) captures anything in between the two.