RegEx to match any character at the 3rd position

Question

I'm trying to match (extract) any character/symbol at the 3rd position of a string using regex. And no, I can't use substrings for this scenario. Below are examples I want matched:

ABCDEF => C
123456 => 3
A B C  => B

I'm also being guaranteed to have a string of more than 10 characters so I don't have to worry about being less that 3 characters.

Any help would be appreciated.

I'm not sure if the underlying program knows how to extract group 1. All I know is it only does a match — Los Morales, Oct 01 '19 at 21:39
actually that worked! go ahead and create an answer and I'll mark it correct. Thank you. — Los Morales, Oct 01 '19 at 21:43

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 01 '19 at 21:45

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You may use this regex with a negative lookbehind:

(?<=^..).

RegEx Demo

RegEx Details:

(?<=^..): Lookbehind assertion to match any 2 characters at line start
.: Match character at 3rd position

answered Oct 01 '19 at 21:45

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RegEx to match any character at the 3rd position

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