String.Split only on first separator in C#?

Question

String.Split is convenient for splitting a string with in multiple part on a delimiter.

How should I go on splitting a string only on the first delimiter. E.g. I\'ve

Answer 1

In your example above you could split on ": " (i.e. colon with trailing space) as this appears to be what you've done. If you really did split on just the first delimeter you'd see a leading space in your second array element.

However, you should probably look at this overload of Split...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/c1bs0eda.aspx

public string[] Split(
  char[] separator,
  int count
)

... which allows you to specify a max number of substrings.