Hi Everyone,
I'm trying to do something fairly simple with Python (ArcGIS 10.3): populate a field called StreetNum with street addresses taken from a field called StreetAddr. However, some street addresses have a one-digit unit number surrounded by spaces before the unit number (e.g. 3 - 560 Main St) and I want only the street number to appear in the StreetNum field. So in other words, I want to populate StreetNum based on criteria: if there is a hyphen present in the string for a particular row in StreetAddr, then calculate the StreetNum by skipping the first 4 values of StreetAddr; otherwise, use the values of StreetAddr the way they are.
I've tested the cases and they work. However, I cannot come up with the proper criteria to check for a hyphen in a given row (no matter how I change my criteria, the script either passes or fails all rows). How would I correctly word my loop criteria?
# Insert Search Cursor into StreetAddr field
rows = arcpy.SearchCursor(fc,["StreetAddr"])
# Check for hyphens in this field
for row in rows:
if "-" in str(row):
#Calculate the field by removing the unit number and hyphen from StreetAddr
arcpy.CalculateField_management(in_table=fc, field="StreetNum", expression="Mid( [StreetAddr],5 )", expression_type="VB", code_block="")
else:
#Calculate the field by taking the content from StreetAddr
arcpy.CalculateField_management(in_table=fc, field="StreetNum", expression="[StreetAddr]", expression_type="VB", code_block="")
del rows
del row
