in reply to Extract a specific number of words from a string

Hi, $str is a variable, maybe you meant substr?

Try this: 

 $ perl -Mstrict -wE 'my $str = "mary had a little lamb"; say for ($st
+r =~ /(\S+)/g)[0..2]'

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Hope this helps!


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