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Split the number from an adress ? (ie. Road of Liberty 17)

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    Split the number from an adress ? (ie. Road of Liberty 17)

    Hi,

    I have tons of adresses formatted in one cell like this: "Road of Liberty 14",
    I need 1 cell for the adress and 1 for the house number
    "Road of Liberty" "14".
    The problem with splitting is that there are very often spaces in the adress, so Excel will split it the following way: "Road" "of" Liberty" "14"...
    I couldn't figure out how to simply extract all numbers out of the text and paste it in the next cell.
    Since it is a huge database and I will have to repeatedly do it again I would prefer not to do it manually.
    Thanks in advance for any help !

    Simon
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    Hi,

    Welcome to the forum, you could use Data > Text to columns and use delimited and select how many columns you require
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    can you give some more example addresses.
    can the address be high street 14a or is it always a number at the end?
    what is the maximum length of the number?

    I am thinking as per the example you want each address spilt in 2?
    Is it always the last space in a string tthat is the point it should be split?

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    well perhaps if the address is in a1

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    Does that help

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    Thanks for the answer, first solution doesn't work for me because the addresses don't have a fix lenght, their format varies very much.
    In the few cases that the housenumber would be 15a, or similar I can manually change it... but the house numbers can be 1, 17 or 119.
    And yes, it is the last space where it should be split!
    I cannot directly copy your formula Dav, because my excel is german, but I will try to decipher the logic behind it, thanks !
    I would appreciate any new answers as well !

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    Here's an alternative if you need one

    Name of road

    =TRIM(LEFT(A1,MIN(FIND({0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9},A1&1234567890)-1)))

    House number

    =TRIM(RIGHT(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ",REPT(" ",10)),10))

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    Thanks, I have succesfully translated these 2 formulas into german but it turns up with #name?
    Any help with that ?

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    does this help?


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    Excellent, that helps indeed, have been trying for an hour or so to solve this problem now, seems like a lot of folks on the internet have a similar problem!
    Thanks again!

    Simon

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