Regex matching 3rd word in a line?

[Ian Gil]

>> I'm looking to match the 3rd (or whatever) word in a line, where word
>> can be anything that's not white space.
>> 
>> I'm not programming, but I'm using a program which says it uses python
>> style regular expressions.
>> 
> 
> This will match the third word in a line:
> 
> ^(?:\S+\s){2}(\S+)
> 
> Change the "2" to "whatever - 1" to match a different word.

This worked except it's matching from the beginning up to the third word
and I'm looking to match just the third word. I tried some variations of
it but apparently not the right ones.

Thanks,

Ian