I want to store the word before the second comma in a string.
So if the string looks like this: Hello, my name is David, bla bla.
I want to set a variable $test = David
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I want to store the word before the second comma in a string.
So if the string looks like this: Hello, my name is David, bla bla.
I want to set a variable $test = David
^— The beginning of the string/line[^ ]— Any character not being …,— … a comma*— Zero or more of the preceding,— A comma[^,]*— Again, any character not being a comma, repeated zero or more times\b— A word boundary (zero width)( )— A capturing group\w— Any word character+— One or more of the preceding\b— A word boundary (zero width),— A comma