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  • Great this is exactly what I was looking for, thank you very much! Just trying to understand the code a little more what does the "{3}' represent? Commented Jan 28, 2018 at 18:19
  • Check regex101.com which is kinda useful trying to develop regexp it explains the statements Commented Jan 28, 2018 at 18:25
  • ok, my point was just to give him the regexp... Commented Jan 28, 2018 at 18:31
  • Would it be possible to also search for lines that contain "MI" in this line as well, so in all I could search for lines that have a zipcode that start with "48" and contain "MI"? I was able to correctly find the lines that have "MI", I'm just wondering if I can combine the two searches into one line. Commented Jan 28, 2018 at 18:34
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    This will match those numbers anywhere in the line. Commented Jan 28, 2018 at 19:35