I've got a string where I need to aleays select just the second and third wodr in a string. Currently I can only select the first three words but I need to skip the first word. I currently have:

^(?:[^ ]*\ ){2}([^ ]*)

Any help wouild be aprreciated. Thanks!

CodePudding user response：

You can capture the second and the third "word" as in 1 or more non whitespace characters:

^\S  (\S  \S )

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Or if supported with a lookbehind:

(?<=^\S  )\S  \S 

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CodePudding user response：

I think this is the regex you're looking for:

(?<=\s)([^ ]*)

Link to example: https://regex101.com/r/wSdzLe/1