Matching similar but not exact text strings in Excel VBA projects

Question

Okay, I have been trying to find a solution for this and I just don\'t seem to be able. I can\'t even break down the problem properly. This is the idea.

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Answer 1

Not exactly on point but similar, and people dealing with my issue are likely to find this page when searching.

Task: A list of patients who have been in car wrecks, including street addresses. Find related accounts based on same street address. The list will be a maximum of maybe 120 records--so partial manual review is realistic.

Problem: Street addresses are similar but not identical, e.g. 123 JONES LANE and 123 JONES LN or 72 MAIN STREET #32 and 72 MAIN STREET # 32.

Part of the solution is to compare only the street numbers. With a list that size it's unusual to have two different addresses with the same street number (e.g., 123 JONES LANE and 123 MAIN STREET).

Caution: You can't use VAL() to pull the street number. Try it with 167 E 13 ST. VBA sees that as 167^13 and will crash if you are outputting to Street_Num As Integer. So you have to use a loop to pull the digits into a new string and stop at the first non-digit character.