Nth word in a string variable

Question

In Bash, I want to get the Nth word of a string hold by a variable.

For instance:

STRING="one two three four" N=3 

Result:

"three" 

What Bash command/script could do this?

Answer 1

echo $STRING | cut -d " " -f $N 

Answer 2

An alternative

N=3 STRING="one two three four"  arr=($STRING) echo ${arr[N-1]}