Problem: I have an address field from an Access database which has been converted to SQL Server 2005. This field has everything all in one field. I need to parse out the address's individual sections into their appropriate fields in a normalized table. I need to do this for approximately 4,000 records, and it needs to be repeatable.
Assumptions:
Assume an address in the US (for now)
assume that the input string will sometimes contain an addressee (the person being addressed) and/or a second street address (i.e. Suite B)
states may be abbreviated
zip code could be standard 5 digits or zip+4
there are typos in some instances
UPDATE: In response to the questions posed, standards were not universally followed; I need need to store the individual values, not just geocode and errors means typo (corrected above)
Sample Data:
A. P. Croll & Son 2299 Lewes-Georgetown Hwy, Georgetown, DE 19947
11522 Shawnee Road, Greenwood DE 19950
144 Kings Highway, S.W. Dover, DE 19901
Intergrated Const. Services 2 Penns Way Suite 405 New Castle, DE 19720
Humes Realty 33 Bridle Ridge Court, Lewes, DE 19958
Nichols Excavation 2742 Pulaski Hwy Newark, DE 19711
2284 Bryn Zion Road, Smyrna, DE 19904
VEI Dover Crossroads, LLC 1500 Serpentine Road, Suite 100 Baltimore MD 21
580 North Dupont Highway Dover, DE 19901
P.O. Box 778 Dover, DE 19903
Update November 2024: These days I'd pass this kind of problem to an LLM like ChatGPT or Claude. Algorithmic processing of this will never be great, but LLMs are very good at figuring out this type of nonsense.
Original answer below in case you're feeling adventurous.
I've done a lot of work on this kind of parsing. Because there are errors you won't get 100% accuracy, but there are a few things you can do to get most of the way there, and then do a visual BS test. Here's the general way to go about it. It's not code, because it's pretty academic to write it, there's no weirdness, just lots of string handling.
(Now that you've posted some sample data, I've made some minor changes)
I hope this helps somewhat.