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Default Extracting Cell Data Based on Input Mask

I have some messy data which has more text in each cell than I need.
For Example:

CompanyName 01-01-118-02W6
Comp Name 01-01-118-02W5
UselessPrefix 01-01-119-02W6
01-02-118-02W6 Useless Suffix
A01-01-119-02W6 Company
01-01-118-02W6duplicate

I want to extract only the "##-##-###-##W#" portion from each cell
(these are surface locations for anyone curious). I want to eliminate
prefixes and suffixes of any type, and report nothing if the cell
doesn't contain the appropriately inputted string.

There are about 30000 records.

Any suggestions?