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You might consider working backwards, or from the middle out, first extracting things you are more confident about. For example:

$line =~ s/\w*\s*[:upper:]{2}\s(\d{5}\s*(\d{3][-\s]*\d{3}-\d{4})\s*(.*
+)$//;
($custCity, $custState, $custZip, $custTel, $custComments) =($1, $2, $
+3, $4, $5);
$line =~ s/(\d*)\s*(.*)\s*(\d*.*)$/;
($custNum, $custName, $custStreet) = ($1, $2, $3);
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This assumes that cities are one word, so it won't work if any of your customers are in New York City or Atlantic City or Boca Raton or Las Vegas.

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In reply to Re: Parse mailing addresses with a regex by TomDLux
in thread Parse mailing addresses with a regex by data67

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