Right Function

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I have 2 rows of cells, each cell contains street address, city, state and zip.

890 West North Street, Norwich, VT 03152
902123 Northwest Street, Westerly, RI 02891


If I use the Right formula I can extract out the zip =RIGHT(A1,5), ok

then I can extract out the state =RIGHT(A1, 2)

Now here's the question
As cities have different lengths of characters, how can I extract out the data that is from the right up to where there is a space?

890 West North Street, Norwich
902123 Northwest Street Westerly

Do not assume that there is always a comma (if there was I could use the text to column feature)

 
For short addresses or blank cells, you can avoid VALUE errors with:

Code:
=TRIM(LEFT(A1,MAX(LEN(A1)-8,0)))
 
Another way

=LEFT(A1,FIND(CHAR(1),SUBSTITUTE(A1," ",CHAR(1),LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ",""))-1))-2)
 
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