What is the best way to extract the first word from a string in Java?

Question

Trying to write a short method so that I can parse a string and extract the first word. I have been looking for the best way to do this.

I assume I would use s

Answer 1

like this:

final String str = "This is a long sentence";
final String[] arr = str.split(" ", 2);
System.out.println(Arrays.toString(arr));

arr[0] is the first word, arr[1] is the rest