Split Address

Imagine you have a long address stored in one place, and have to split it to fill some form, like a shipping label, which separates address into several lines and limits the length of each line. You would like the program to do this for you and do it smart.

This function uses common delimiters , and (space) to decide how to split the address into chunks. If the delimiters are not found, it fall back to split by line limit. And if a chunk exceeds the line limit, it splits the chunk recursively till all chunks are fit. This method should work in most cases.

For Example

import { splitAddress } from "split-address";

const address = "8352 E Main St, Alexandria, KY, United States";

// FedEx restricts address line's length to be 36 characters, if I remember
// correctly.
const lines1 = splitAddress(address, 36);
// ["8352 E Main St, Alexandria, KY", "United States"]

// Even shorter in some other cases:
const lines2 = splitAddress(address, 24);
// ["8352 E Main St, Alexandria", "KY, United States"]

Or in Chinese

import { splitAddress } from "split-address";

const address1 = "中国 广东省 深圳市 南山区 科苑南路3009号中国储能大厦";
const lines1 = splitAddress(address1, 20);
// ["中国 广东省 深圳市 南山区", "科苑南路3009号中国储能大厦"]

// Or maybe there is no delimiter, the function just splits by line limit:
const address2 = "中国广东省深圳市南山区科苑南路3009号中国储能大厦";
const lines2 = splitAddress(address2, 20);
// ["中国广东省深圳市南山区科苑南路3009号", "中国储能大厦"]

API

declare function splitAddress(address: string, lineLimit: number): string[];