How to find the n-th occurrence of a separator in a string?

Question

123,one,two,three,for,five,six

How could I best extract the word after the 3rd occurrence of the , separator? (which would be three in my example.

Probably I'm not the first one doing this and there might be an apache or guava library that provides a static method for this?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3976616/how-to-find-nth-occurrence-of-character-in-a-string — aioobe, Dec 23 '14 at 10:33
If you're after *three* rather than the position of the separator char, you would just do .split(",")[3] — aioobe, Dec 23 '14 at 10:35

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 23 '14 at 10:34

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You van simply use .split(",")[3]

answered Dec 23 '14 at 10:34

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