I tried to make a solution that captured the nth word, where n was the more human index. 1 being first, etc.
$str = "this is a sentence of words and I want the nth one";

$n = 4; # the word we want

$a = 0;

$a = 1 + index $str, $", $a while --$n;

$word = substr $str, $a, -$a + index $str, $", $a;

print "$word";

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prints "sentence". It seems very complicated, though.

Doesn't work for the last word. Bah! Unless I change it to index"$str ", $", $a everywhere. Nuts.

In reply to Re: Capturing the nth word in a string by Jasper
in thread Capturing the nth word in a string by Roger

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