[Tutor] extract meaningful data from garbage

[Shashwat Anand]

I need to extract some meaningful data from grabages.
Here are four examples. I need to get date, company name and address from
these.
For date i used regex but I'm unable to find any definite pattern for
address and company name
the format is more or less :
garbage
id - date
garbage
company name
garbage
company address
garbage

How should I parse info if I'm not certain of any definite rules. This is my
first time dealing with real-life data.
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