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hey. i have an enormous list of addresses with the whole address in one
cell for each address. i need to extract the postcode (zip) to another
cell so that i can sort the data by postcode. each line of the address
is separated by a space. can anyone help me? Please!


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A sample (or two) of the address format would help.

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hey. i have an enormous list of addresses with the whole address in one
cell for each address. i need to extract the postcode (zip) to another
cell so that i can sort the data by postcode. each line of the address
is separated by a space. can anyone help me? Please!


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On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 04:18:58 -0400, jamie_k
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hey. i have an enormous list of addresses with the whole address in one
cell for each address. i need to extract the postcode (zip) to another
cell so that i can sort the data by postcode. each line of the address
is separated by a space. can anyone help me? Please!


It's probably simple to do with Regular Expressions or possibly with built-in
functions. But samples of your addresses (with the possible variations) is
required.


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