Regex matching 3rd word in a line?

[Klaus-G. Meyer]

Ian Gil wrote:
> and I'm looking to match just the third word.

Hm, first extract the third word and then use re?

 >>> s = "one two three four"
 >>> s.split()[2]
'three'

split has an optional argument "sep" to define other chars than 
whitespace characters.

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