Please help with string manipulation (parsing)..

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There are many of these im a html source.. and theres dozens of these sequences in the source.. listing a link with a <script> tag
beside it. how can i create a function to check the value of the 1st number in each <script>sc(x,y,z)</script> (x in this case) in
the order it was seen in the html source?


for example, lets say i wanted to check the value of the 3rd item in the source (in this case, the last)..
Check(3) would return the value of 2, as "<script>sc(2,1,0)</script>" shows 2 as the first number in the 3rd time in the source.

anyone know?