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February 1, 2016 19:24
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This script splits a field called "AllStreets," which contains multiple streets separated by " & " and then checks to see if any matches a street name in the "Cross_St" field and updates a field called "Doyourname" with 0,1,2
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| import arcpy | |
| from arcpy import env | |
| ##### Input ##### | |
| shp = "C:/Users/dotcid034/Desktop/Export_Output (1)/Export_Output.shp" | |
| col_fields = ["Cross_St","AllStreets","Doyourname"] | |
| cur = arcpy.da.UpdateCursor(shp,col_fields) | |
| for row in cur: | |
| val = None | |
| short_primary = "" | |
| short_cross = "" | |
| print row | |
| #if the cross-street string is empty, return 2 | |
| if str(row[1]) == " ": | |
| print "None" | |
| val = 2 | |
| else: | |
| #get the short version of the primary st | |
| primary_st = [] | |
| primary_st = row[0].split() | |
| if len(primary_st) >= 2: | |
| prim_suffix = primary_st[len(primary_st)-1][0] | |
| primary_st[len(primary_st)-1] = prim_suffix | |
| short_primary = ' '.join(primary_st) | |
| print short_primary | |
| #shorten cross streets, each of which is separated by " & " | |
| cross_streets = [] | |
| cross_streets = row[1].split(" & ") | |
| for i in cross_streets: | |
| print i | |
| streets2 = [] | |
| streets2 = i.split() | |
| if len(streets2) >= 2: | |
| cross_suffix = streets2[len(streets2)-1][0] | |
| streets2[len(streets2)-1] = cross_suffix | |
| short_cross = ' '.join(streets2) | |
| print short_cross | |
| if short_cross == short_primary: | |
| val = 1 | |
| #if the string is not empty, and if there is no match, return 0 | |
| if val is None: | |
| val = 0 | |
| #update the cursor | |
| row[2] = val | |
| cur.updateRow(row) | |
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