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1 years ago
Thought I would let everyone know that I needed to find the last position of the house numbers in an address field in access. The only way I could do this was to export a short query to excel and run this formula. I know there is a way to get the excel functions in access but this was much easier. I had addresses that had varying house number lengths and then you throw in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd...St., Ave into the mix within the street name and you got a major problem parsing a very bad formatted address string.
address examples 1234 nw (or NW) 4th St.
12 West St North (or N)
123,456, and 789 Heritage Circle (or Crc)
123 & 456 N 1st. St
I figured out a way to parse off the first and second example real quick with some research (I would give credit, but right now I can't remember where I got the answer). It involved creating a VBA function to accomplish it. That worked great but I came to a problem when we come to the first "," or "and" or "&".
Using this formula in excel found the last number I needed without choosing the street number. Since most house numbers ended with a space " " between them and the direction segment or the street name segment, I added --- &" " after the find formula. Like this: in an array formula
=MAX(IFERROR(FIND({1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0}&" ",E2,ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(E2)))),0))
A quick export back to an access table and wala! you have the number.
202 & 206 N Blanche Ave = 9
Now I know I could probably parse the rest of the address in excel but it actually worked real well in Access, so I just decided to do the rest there.
If there is a way to do it all in Access, I couldn't find it or figure it out.
address examples 1234 nw (or NW) 4th St.
12 West St North (or N)
123,456, and 789 Heritage Circle (or Crc)
123 & 456 N 1st. St
I figured out a way to parse off the first and second example real quick with some research (I would give credit, but right now I can't remember where I got the answer). It involved creating a VBA function to accomplish it. That worked great but I came to a problem when we come to the first "," or "and" or "&".
Using this formula in excel found the last number I needed without choosing the street number. Since most house numbers ended with a space " " between them and the direction segment or the street name segment, I added --- &" " after the find formula. Like this: in an array formula
=MAX(IFERROR(FIND({1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0}&" ",E2,ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(E2)))),0))
A quick export back to an access table and wala! you have the number.
202 & 206 N Blanche Ave = 9
Now I know I could probably parse the rest of the address in excel but it actually worked real well in Access, so I just decided to do the rest there.
If there is a way to do it all in Access, I couldn't find it or figure it out.