Nth word in a string variable

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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

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echo  STRING   cut -d     -f  N

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A file containing some statements    cat test txt   Result     This is the 1st Statement This is the 2nd Statement This is the 3rd Statement This is the 4th Statement This is the 5th Statement   So  to print the 4th word of this statement type    cat test txt  awk   print  4     Output    1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th

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An alternative  N 3 STRING  one two three four   arr   STRING  echo   arr N-1

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STRING  one two three four  echo    STRING n

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Using awk  echo  STRING   awk -v N  N   print  N     Test    N 3   STRING  one two three four    echo  STRING   awk -v N  N   print  N   three

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No expensive forks  no pipes  no bashisms     set --  STRING   eval echo     N  three   But beware of globbing

[bash] Nth word in a string variable

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