PHP regexp US address

Question

I\'m trying to see what would be a good way to validate a US address, I know that there might be not a proper way of doing this, but I\'m going for the basic way: #

Answer 1

I agree with salman: have user enter the data in different fields (one for zip, one for state, one for city, and one for the #/street name. Use a different regex for each field. For the street #/name the best expression i came up with was

/^[0-9]{1,7} [a-zA-z0-9]{2,35}\a*/