This is useful for parsing Australian street addresses.
It discards initial rubbish, then extracts:
regex Python library, you could get a list of numbers preceding a street nameDetailed explanation as verbose regex below (?ix) # case insensitive and verbose flag
(?:^[A-Z\W]*\W+(?!bnd|cnr)\W+)? # discard initial rubbish (names not including BND/CNR) if present
(?:(?!\b(?:{0})\b) # not starting with road type
(?P<numbers>\d+-\d+|\d+[A-Z]?)\W+)*? # capture numbers if present, including extension letter
(?:\W+(?:AND|&)\W+)* # do not capture AND/& if present
(?:(?:(?P<geo>BND|CNR) # capture BND/CNR if present (GEO var)
(?:\WOF|\WBY)?)\W+)* # do not capture OF/BY following BND/CNR
(?P<name> # capture street name (NAME var)
(?:(?!\b(?:{0})\b) # not starting with road type
[A-Z]+\W*)+)\W+ # contains letters and non-words only
(?:(?P<type>{0}\W))+ # capture street type (TYPE var) and ignores trailing rubbish
(?:\W|$) # non-word or end of string