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Parse a belgian street address
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belgian-address.pcre
^
(?# street - required)([^/\n]+?)
(?# separator)[\s,]+
(?# number - required)(\d[\w-]*)
(?# box - optional)(?:\s*(?:bte|bus|boite|box|/)\s*(.+?))?
(?# trailing whitespaces)\s*
$
(?#
FIXME: how to make a difference between a ‘/‘ and ‘/b’,
when the ‘b’ could be part of the box?
Proposed solution: keep the b in the box number.
)
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