Split a string only the at the first n occurrences of a delimiter

Question

I\'d like to split a string only the at the first n occurrences of a delimiter. I know, I could add them together using a loop, but isn\'t there a more straight forward appr

Answer 1

For this you could use Split(delimiter) and choose a delimiter.

var testSplit = "Split this, but not this";
var testParts= testSplit.Split(",");

var firstPart = testParts[1];

// firstPart = "Split this"

Not 100% on my syntax I havent used javascript in quite some time. But I know this is how its done...

EDIT** Sorry, my mistake. Now I believe I know what your asking and I think the easiest way to do this is using substr. Very easy, no loops required. Just made an example, works perfect

// so first, we want to get everything from 0 - the first occurence of the comma.
// next, we want to get everything after the first occurence of the comma.  (if you only define one parameter, substr will take everything after that parameter.

var testString = "Split this, but this part, and this part are one string";
var part1 = testString.substr(0,testString.indexOf(',')); 
var part2 = testString.substr(testString.indexOf(','));

//part1 = "Split this"
//part2= "but this part, and this part are one string"