How to find the nth character or digit in a string using REGEX in Perl

Question

I would like to find nth occurence of a digit or character using regex in perl.

For example: If the string is:

$string = 'abdg2jj4jdh5jfj6'

i need to match the digit 5 which is the 3rd digit.

How can i do it with regex.

Answer 1

my $string = "abdg2jj4jdh5jfj6";
my @myArray = ($string =~ /(\d)/g);
print "$myArray[2]\n";

Output:

5