in reply to How do I find the Nth occurrence of a pattern?

Use the /g (global) to find all occurrences in a string. Place the matching statement within a while loop and count until you get to the wanted number.
$n=5; #want the 5th occurrence of a group of 5 numbers $count=0; while(/(\d{5})/g){ if(++$count==$n){ print "The $n\th occurrence was $1\n"; } }