in reply to Re^3: Regex text extraction b/w first intance of pattern X and third instance of pattern Y.
in thread Regex text extraction b/w first intance of pattern X and third instance of pattern Y.

I agree, though the use of index isn't going to handle "patterns" in the "Regex" sense of the term. But absense the narrative, it would have had my upvote.

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