Anonymous Monk,
From what you have shown - it is a fixed string up to the number you are looking for. This screams "use substr". Your example showed \d{3} which implies it will always be a 3 digit number, but since you didn't say that - I offer the following two solutions - neither using a regex. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $string = qq{('AA','B','2','ProjectId','148')">Unique Information H
+ere (Index)};
my $number = substr($string,27,3);
#my $number = substr($string,27,index($string,"'",27) - 27);

print "$number\n";

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Just switch the comments for my $number depending on if it will always be a 3 digit number or not.

Cheers - L~R

In reply to Re: Fetching a number by Limbic~Region
in thread Fetching a number by Anonymous Monk

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