Regex matching 3rd word in a line?

[Ian Gil]

I'm looking to match the 3rd (or whatever) word in a line, where word
can be anything that's not white space.

I'm not programming, but I'm using a program which says it uses python
style regular expressions.
Ian

[Joe Francia]

Ian Gil wrote:

I'm looking to match the 3rd (or whatever) word in a line, where word
can be anything that's not white space.

I'm not programming, but I'm using a program which says it uses python
style regular expressions.

This will match the third word in a line:

^(?:\S+\s){2}(\S+)

Change the "2" to "whatever - 1" to match a different word.

Peace,
Joe

[Ian Gil]

>> I'm looking to match the 3rd (or whatever) word in a line, where word

can be anything that's not white space.

I'm not programming, but I'm using a program which says it uses python
style regular expressions.

This will match the third word in a line:

^(?:\S+\s){2}(\S+)

Change the "2" to "whatever - 1" to match a different word.

This worked except it's matching from the beginning up to the third word
and I'm looking to match just the third word. I tried some variations of
it but apparently not the right ones.

Thanks,

Ian

[Klaus-G. Meyer]

Ian Gil wrote:

and I'm looking to match just the third word.

Hm, first extract the third word and then use re?

s = "one two three four"
s.split()[2]

'three'

split has an optional argument "sep" to define other chars than
whitespace characters.

--
Gruß - regards
Klaus :-)