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I am trying to parse stock holdings for certain companies but I am running into trouble because they are not uniform in their form. The data has a general form but each company uses a slightly different style for the forms. These differences are hamstringing my efforts to effectively parse the data. I have attempted to parse the data using the split function to get it into a more manageable form, and then use various comparisons to tease out the right information. This, however, has not panned out like I hoped. Below are some sample data forms and some of my (albeit poorly written and structured) VBA to try and solve the problem.........

I am trying to extract the same fields from each, such as name or number of shares:

3COM CORP 885535104 1,700,000
Prudential Financial, Inc. 432848109 100,000
this would be a desired output.

here is some of my code to try and accomplish this. this seems to work the data if it is formatted correctly, but I would like write a general parser, and this is what I am struggling with. I cannot figure out how to write something that will correclty parse these irregular strings.

txt = ActiveCell.Value
x = Split(txt, " ")
name = ""
cusip = ""
shrs = "".....................

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