Split string on the first white space occurrence

Question

I didn\'t get an optimized regex that split me a String basing into the first white space occurrence:

var str=\"72 tocirah sneab\";

I need

Answer 1

The following function will always split the sentence into 2 elements. The first element will contain only the first word and the second element will contain all the other words (or it will be a empty string).

var arr1 = split_on_first_word("72 tocirah sneab");       // Result: ["72", "tocirah sneab"]
var arr2 = split_on_first_word("  72  tocirah sneab  ");  // Result: ["72", "tocirah sneab"]
var arr3 = split_on_first_word("72");                     // Result: ["72", ""]
var arr4 = split_on_first_word("");                       // Result: ["", ""]

function split_on_first_word(str)
{
    str = str.trim();  // Clean string by removing beginning and ending spaces.

    var arr = [];
    var pos = str.indexOf(' ');  // Find position of first space

    if ( pos === -1 ) {
        // No space found
        arr.push(str);                // First word (or empty)
        arr.push('');                 // Empty (no next words)
    } else {
        // Split on first space
        arr.push(str.substr(0,pos));         // First word
        arr.push(str.substr(pos+1).trim());  // Next words
    }

    return arr;
}