From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2005-09-05T16:01:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Making my Regex less greedy?


luke (dot) wrote:

> ... Out of curiosity, is it easy to express "find the 3rd match"?. (Rather
> than saying "find 3 matches").

Third integer (counting starts at 0):

"1. All 27 bells were rung 3 times.".scan(/\d+/)[2]