From: Dave Burt <dave@...>
Date: 2005-09-05T17:16:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Making my Regex less greedy?

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

scan will find all matches, so you can do:

a = "first second third".scan(/\w+/)
a[2] #=> "third"

Cheers,
Dave