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

I like using shift.

function splitFirstN(str,n,delim){
    var parts = str.split(delim);
    var r = [];
    for(var i = 0; i < n; i++){
        r.push(parts.shift());
    }
    r.push(parts.join(delim));
    return r;
}

var str = 'Split this, but not this';    
var result = splitFirstN(str,2,' ');