Re: How do I find the Nth occurrence of a pattern?

[maverick]

you could use =~ in array context like:

$string = "12 34 56 78 90 98 76 54 32 10";
(@matches) = ($string =~ /(\d+)/g);
print "fifth match is $matches[4]\n";
print "eigth match is $matches[7]\n";

/\/\averick